Meryl Horne

Right, right.

And then there's the stuff that, like, makes it over that first hurdle, so you're aware of it, but the brain decides, like, eh, it's not really important to store that.

Huh.

A lot of the things I feel like I tend to forget are just really boring or like meaningless to me.

Like what was the name of the person I just met?

Did I water my plants?

Like kind of makes sense that I'd be forgetting to do these things that like I don't really give a crap about.

And the reason the brain isn't hoarding memories nonstop is because it doesn't have infinite resources to store everything.

Yeah.

Fun fact, Charin told me that the power our brain operates on is roughly the same as a light bulb.

Oh!

But then issues pop up when our brain economizes so much that we forget stuff that we actually want to remember.

And Charin says that he forgets stuff all the time, too, just like the rest of us.

Like...

And he's not worried about any of that.

I mean, in the moment, he'll still get frustrated, but then he'll tell himself, oh, no, wait, this is normal.

And he actually has scientific explanations for why we tend to forget a lot of stuff like this.

So, like, let's start with that key thing.

There is, yes.

It's called interference.