Charan Ranganath

If I'm going to see someone and have a meeting and I don't feel like going to the meeting because I'm tired and I'm bored or I want to just look at this YouTube video or I want to go on social media or whatever dumb thing that I waste my time on, right? I say to myself, well, why am I doing this?

If I'm going to see someone and have a meeting and I don't feel like going to the meeting because I'm tired and I'm bored or I want to just look at this YouTube video or I want to go on social media or whatever dumb thing that I waste my time on, right? I say to myself, well, why am I doing this?

And I remind myself of that motivation and it kicks everything in gear because now I have that goal in place because the goal just doesn't pop up for me automatically. And so relating what I do to values is a game changer for me. But it's a conscious thing that I have to work on to remind myself of those values and connect them.

And I remind myself of that motivation and it kicks everything in gear because now I have that goal in place because the goal just doesn't pop up for me automatically. And so relating what I do to values is a game changer for me. But it's a conscious thing that I have to work on to remind myself of those values and connect them.

And I remind myself of that motivation and it kicks everything in gear because now I have that goal in place because the goal just doesn't pop up for me automatically. And so relating what I do to values is a game changer for me. But it's a conscious thing that I have to work on to remind myself of those values and connect them.

And that's part of what I think people lose when they retire, for instance. I see this in people I'm close to who have retired. They feel like work is their only purpose. And so afterwards they feel purposeless and then they're just doing things like doom scrolling or being radicalized on the internet or like going into – but it's just like whatever captures their attention.

And that's part of what I think people lose when they retire, for instance. I see this in people I'm close to who have retired. They feel like work is their only purpose. And so afterwards they feel purposeless and then they're just doing things like doom scrolling or being radicalized on the internet or like going into – but it's just like whatever captures their attention.

And that's part of what I think people lose when they retire, for instance. I see this in people I'm close to who have retired. They feel like work is their only purpose. And so afterwards they feel purposeless and then they're just doing things like doom scrolling or being radicalized on the internet or like going into – but it's just like whatever captures their attention.

And I think – so a big part of that sense of purpose for me has really been to get in touch with what do I really want. And I mean this goes back to another thing with memory. And I know this is a total ADHD pre-association thing, but it's like I can – people often ask me, okay, fine.

And I think – so a big part of that sense of purpose for me has really been to get in touch with what do I really want. And I mean this goes back to another thing with memory. And I know this is a total ADHD pre-association thing, but it's like I can – people often ask me, okay, fine.

And I think – so a big part of that sense of purpose for me has really been to get in touch with what do I really want. And I mean this goes back to another thing with memory. And I know this is a total ADHD pre-association thing, but it's like I can – people often ask me, okay, fine.

Give me all this stuff for brain aging and we didn't even get into hearing aids and vision testing and oral hygiene and so forth.

Give me all this stuff for brain aging and we didn't even get into hearing aids and vision testing and oral hygiene and so forth.

Give me all this stuff for brain aging and we didn't even get into hearing aids and vision testing and oral hygiene and so forth.

But what I tell people is – I can tell you lots of strategies for remembering names, for remembering where you've been, for trying to remember like to do something in the future, some of the hardest memory challenges we have. But unless you do them, do those strategies, I can't help you. And the problem is, and this speaks to, I really liked what you said.

But what I tell people is – I can tell you lots of strategies for remembering names, for remembering where you've been, for trying to remember like to do something in the future, some of the hardest memory challenges we have. But unless you do them, do those strategies, I can't help you. And the problem is, and this speaks to, I really liked what you said.

But what I tell people is – I can tell you lots of strategies for remembering names, for remembering where you've been, for trying to remember like to do something in the future, some of the hardest memory challenges we have. But unless you do them, do those strategies, I can't help you. And the problem is, and this speaks to, I really liked what you said.

We do have to talk about some exceptions like retrieval-induced forgetting and some interesting things like the pre-testing effect. But your thing on study skills, I listened to that podcast and I was like, the beautiful thing that you did with that, one of them, was that you said, assume that you will forget.

We do have to talk about some exceptions like retrieval-induced forgetting and some interesting things like the pre-testing effect. But your thing on study skills, I listened to that podcast and I was like, the beautiful thing that you did with that, one of them, was that you said, assume that you will forget.

We do have to talk about some exceptions like retrieval-induced forgetting and some interesting things like the pre-testing effect. But your thing on study skills, I listened to that podcast and I was like, the beautiful thing that you did with that, one of them, was that you said, assume that you will forget.