Dr. Kentaro Fujita

So for example, one of the things that it does is it helps make me feel connected.

So a lot of times I might feel like I don't really know myself.

I don't know who I am.

And nostalgia is a way, as you use the word anchor, it allows you to time travel and anchor, and then more importantly, see a sense of self continuity that I can see how I was there then, and I can see how I am now.

And I feel a sense of connection, a sense of oneness.

And that can have a lot of positive benefits to the extent that that's what you're looking for.

So to the extent that music makes you nostalgic, and I think a lot of the music that we love most has an element of nostalgia to it, I do think it serves a very important distance-traveling function, time-traveling function.

And you used the word anchor, which I really like too.

It reminds us who we are.

where we've been and who we've become.

And we know for humans, that narrative, that sense of continuity is also very important for existential reasons, that I belong here for a reason, that there's a purpose.

And so motivationally, those can be very effective.

Now, I don't know if it reinstates the motivations that you had during the time, but I think it at least allows you to connect to the time where you had those motivations.

They may have changed, they may be stronger, they may be weaker, but that sense of connection, I think, is really important for understanding

what your motivations are in the first place, right?

How they've evolved over time and what they are now like.

To the extent of the same, it might be able to reactivate, but to the extent that they're different, it actually might cause deactivation, but not in a bad way, but in sort of a good way in reminding you, okay, now what motivates you?

Now it's changed.

What do you care about now?

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