Lex Fridman

What are the ways you can possibly figure out which is true?

The thing you remembered initially or the thing you're now remembering four years later?

this is a tricky question, but you mentioned therapy.

It does seem like what therapists do is they want to find a problem and they can then just project the problem and then convince you the problem existed.

So how do you know, is like therapy even an effective, it takes a very special therapist not to implant, right?

A trauma that never happened or, or, um,

details that ever happened to a trauma that did?

You just want the truth.

Maybe you can speak to the non-courtroom setting.

Because this is all, the positive side of it is you can basically shape your memories to be happier.

I mean, I find this in myself.

Maybe you could speak to that.

If I, you know, look at past relationships, if I just think about, or maybe speak to others about the positive things, really think.

Just think, like, I focus my mind on the memory, on the positive memories.

And then everything just becomes more positive.

And I think it makes me feel like I'm way happier about my past.

So there must be something to that.

Because I almost start to forget that the negative stuff happened.

And then the same thing on the flip side is if you focus on the negative, then the negative stuff just overpowers everything else.

And you have a very heavy negative feeling about your past.