How to Remember What Matters | Dr. Charan Ranganath

The first step is once you realize and you really accept that you're going to forget most things, then you have to ask yourself, what's important to me to remember? And what are the memories I want to carry with me? So in the short term, you could say, okay, I want to remember that I put my phone here. And if you start with the assumption that I'm probably going to forget that, I can teach you strategies. You can go on YouTube, find 100 of these strategies. online. But the key is that no matter what strategy I teach you, if you don't have that moment of stopping yourself and saying, Hey, I'm going to forget this. So what am I going to do about it? You've lost the game already. I can't help you. So it's acknowledging you're going to forget things. And then saying, How can I prevent this from being forgotten?