Dr. Ellen Langer

I said, what was the last thing I said in class on Tuesday? Nobody remembers. I said, you must be getting dementia. All right. So that when a young person forgets, it's okay. They don't pay any attention to the forgetting. As you get older and you forget, you get less involved in what you're doing.

I said, what was the last thing I said in class on Tuesday? Nobody remembers. I said, you must be getting dementia. All right. So that when a young person forgets, it's okay. They don't pay any attention to the forgetting. As you get older and you forget, you get less involved in what you're doing.

If you're trying to learn something, you have the competing part of you saying that you're not going to remember this and so on. And independent of all of this, I think a lot of the loss in memory has nothing to do with memory. You know, when I was young and you're introducing me to people, I thought it was important for me to remember their names. Andrew, I know, doesn't speak well of me.

If you're trying to learn something, you have the competing part of you saying that you're not going to remember this and so on. And independent of all of this, I think a lot of the loss in memory has nothing to do with memory. You know, when I was young and you're introducing me to people, I thought it was important for me to remember their names. Andrew, I know, doesn't speak well of me.

If you're trying to learn something, you have the competing part of you saying that you're not going to remember this and so on. And independent of all of this, I think a lot of the loss in memory has nothing to do with memory. You know, when I was young and you're introducing me to people, I thought it was important for me to remember their names. Andrew, I know, doesn't speak well of me.

I don't really care. You're going to introduce me to five of your—what do I care? If I'm going to need their names, chances are I will meet them again, right? So afterwards, if you say to me, remember Jim, and I say to you, which one was Jim? It wasn't that I forgot, right? To forget means I had to have learned it in the first place.

I don't really care. You're going to introduce me to five of your—what do I care? If I'm going to need their names, chances are I will meet them again, right? So afterwards, if you say to me, remember Jim, and I say to you, which one was Jim? It wasn't that I forgot, right? To forget means I had to have learned it in the first place.

I don't really care. You're going to introduce me to five of your—what do I care? If I'm going to need their names, chances are I will meet them again, right? So afterwards, if you say to me, remember Jim, and I say to you, which one was Jim? It wasn't that I forgot, right? To forget means I had to have learned it in the first place.

And so if you don't learn it in the first place because you don't care, because your values change as you get older, then it's not a matter of forgetting when you don't know it in the second place. And I think that if we turn it around, because now I'm doing this because I know you expect it of me, and we say, what if you remembered everything? Everything. That would be terrible.

And so if you don't learn it in the first place because you don't care, because your values change as you get older, then it's not a matter of forgetting when you don't know it in the second place. And I think that if we turn it around, because now I'm doing this because I know you expect it of me, and we say, what if you remembered everything? Everything. That would be terrible.

And so if you don't learn it in the first place because you don't care, because your values change as you get older, then it's not a matter of forgetting when you don't know it in the second place. And I think that if we turn it around, because now I'm doing this because I know you expect it of me, and we say, what if you remembered everything? Everything. That would be terrible.

How would you get through? You wouldn't get to experience anything new. So forgetting, you know, serves a purpose. And I used to think, I never tested this, and now we came up with this years ago, and I think it's probably wrong, but it's kind of fun, that people, as they get older, they become hard of hearing.

How would you get through? You wouldn't get to experience anything new. So forgetting, you know, serves a purpose. And I used to think, I never tested this, and now we came up with this years ago, and I think it's probably wrong, but it's kind of fun, that people, as they get older, they become hard of hearing.

How would you get through? You wouldn't get to experience anything new. So forgetting, you know, serves a purpose. And I used to think, I never tested this, and now we came up with this years ago, and I think it's probably wrong, but it's kind of fun, that people, as they get older, they become hard of hearing.

But it also happens that the older you get, the more you realize nobody is really saying anything. And so being hard of hearing protects you from a lot of that noise. Yeah, my grandfather used to turn off his hearing.

But it also happens that the older you get, the more you realize nobody is really saying anything. And so being hard of hearing protects you from a lot of that noise. Yeah, my grandfather used to turn off his hearing.

But it also happens that the older you get, the more you realize nobody is really saying anything. And so being hard of hearing protects you from a lot of that noise. Yeah, my grandfather used to turn off his hearing.

Or should I have the book further away?

Or should I have the book further away?

Or should I have the book further away?