Dr. David Bardsley

And I would never discourage people from doing those.

But you don't want to hang your hat on that as being the salvation

for your mental acuity for the rest of your life, because the studies show that they just don't make a significant difference overall.

Oh, that's a big part of it.

We tend to remember things that are important to us, and we tend not to remember things that aren't important.

If you just walked in the house and you flipped your keys on the nearest table and you start talking to someone, you may not remember where you left those keys.

It wasn't important.

You just flipped them somewhere.

But if you walked in and said, OK, I've got to be out of here in exactly 15 minutes, you know, I'm going to put my keys right over here.

So, you know, and you make a conscious effort.

I'm going to put them right here.

You'll probably remember where those keys are.

We remember things that are important to us.

So because little, you know, because you misplace something, you know, I tell people don't, you know, don't get all bent out of shape over that.

That's not critical at all.

And people will often say to me, well, you know, I have a terrible, I can't remember names.

It's so embarrassing, you know, and I'm worried about it.

And I ask them, well, could you ever remember names?

Could you remember names 20 years ago or 30 years ago?

And they say, no, I've been terrible all my life at remembering names.