Nelson Dellis

They were smoking.

He was much younger and there was the most beautiful sunset.

And he remembered to himself thinking, I really want to remember this sunset.

This is the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen in my life.

And now when he thinks back on the memory, he remembers that.

Like saying that, not the actual sunset itself, but the actual perceiving of the light and all that maybe isn't what's in his memory.

It's the feeling.

And, you know, that he was maybe high with his dad, right?

Which is more of like a bonding thing and like a silly memory.

Those are the kinds of things that we actually remember, right?

I mean, it's not so much about...

the detail of what is all around you, although that adds to what you store, but it's usually, when you think of a memory, it comes down to like a small bit of information, a small feeling.

The nice thing about training your memory

is you start to develop this relationship with your brain and your memory and you understand what sticks, what doesn't, how to make things stick.

And that translates to your life, how to make your life more memorable.

And I think everybody wants to have a memorable life, right?

One that you think back on and smile and feel full, like...

satiated by, right?

Because you have a lot of memories.

Even if you did a lot of things and you don't remember any of it, your life might feel empty because you don't remember any of it.