July  1,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“We are what we remember of ourselves.”

 

Michael Anderson,

 

 

Michael Anderson, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge who studies memory.  How you will remember your life as an 80-year-old will depend on the ways you hold on to, or let go of, memories.  Your brain is always in the process of forgetting,  but Anderson believes you can forget with more intentionality – what he calls motivated forgetting – and that you can get better at it with practice.  ‘You sculpt your memories,’ he says.” page 17 in an article by Malia Wollan, “How to Forget Something,” in the New York Times Magazine, for May 9, 2021