Nelson Dellis

many opportunities to defer our thinking to these devices.

You know, we don't have to use our memories like we once had to, right?

Think of all the numbers you probably knew as a kid, and I'm doing this, you're probably thinking this, right, on the rotary even.

We all have these numbers.

You're right.

Sorry, I don't mean to age you there.

Yeah, and what I was going towards is that I think it's a very human ability to remember things, right?

Obviously, memorizing a phone number isn't that deep, but think about how we share memories with others and loved ones and make meaning out of our lives and connections with people.

That's all based on memory, right?

I think personally, maybe I'm biased, but I think it's the most human thing

Out there that our brain does.

And so from that standpoint, if we are no longer using our memories or training our memories by doing actual memory exercises in our day, memorizing little things like numbers and lists and facts that we now just pull out of thin air from our phones.

where will that leave our memories in 50 to 100 years?

Some might say that's not important, but I think that's very important.

When I memorize something and I hold it in my mind, something that's important to me, whether it's a life memory or a fact that tickles my mind that's interesting and I've owned that and I can say it, or a poem that I've spent time learning and feeling and really connecting with maybe the author,

trying to understand what they said.

Like once I get that in my mind, it's in me, it's in my soul.

And there's a really strong connection to that information that you can't get if it's outside of the brain.

And the more that happens, just what's left, you know?

It reminds me of, I was having a podcast with somebody else who was telling me that he has this really strong memory of when he was with his dad and they were very high.