Meryl Horne

So, like, you know, there's all this stuff happening.

We're having this conversation.

Maybe there's, like, birds chirping outside or, you know, emails dinging.

And your brain is kind of processing all this as it's happening.

And then at some point, you'll leave your office.

And at that moment, your brain will be like, and scene.

There's like a little reset that happens.

And when you go into the next room, a new scene begins.

And so...

In between each of the rooms is this boundary, right?

We call it an event boundary because there's like a boundary between two different events.

And scientists think there is a flurry of activity in the brain at these transitions, at these event boundaries.

And then I realized, oh, actually, event boundaries, this can explain a lot of my day-to-day forgetting.

So this is why every time I go into my bathroom, I'm like, oh, I really need to order more lotion.

Like this bottle has been empty for like weeks.

I'd leave the bathroom and forget about it immediately.

And the next time I'm in the bathroom, I'm like, all right, the lotion.

I should probably just order the lotion in the bathroom is what I'm learning by saying this out loud.

And knowing what he knows now about memory, Charan gave me some advice.

He was like, try doing a little prep work before you leave the room to set your brain up for success.