How Your Memory Works -- and Why Forgetting Is Totally OK | Lisa Genova | TED

Our brains are truly breathtaking -- and perhaps their most astonishing ability is the capacity to create, store and retrieve a lifetime of memories. Learn how memory works, why we forget and how to keep your brain in great shape with Lisa Genova, bestselling author and neuroscientist. Enroll in her TED Course “How to boost your brain + memory” today: tedtalks.social/brain

"Forgetting is ok" tell that to my parents after I forgot my MacBook at the train station.

☆ When she mention "wheres my phone" ..I'm like "Omg I can't find my phone. I was looking for it for a good 10 minutes when I realized... I'm holding it watching this video. I know..

You know what's crazy, I'll have moments where dreams I've had years ago just randomly pop into my head throughout the day. This happens many times, and the scenarios in those dreams still fresh, it's insane

There are many internet gurus who "train" your memory, but this video just debunks the frauds and would save so many people if they just saw this. Thank you TED

Well this makes me feel a lot better, but damn shame how we forget almost all of our lives

This video made me remember that tommorow is friday and its the deadline of my homework,and I Havent answer anything

Memories are encoded most strongly when we're paying attention, when we're deeply engaged, and when information is meaningful to us (TED-Ed)

After a loooonnng time, I found a TED video worth watching and really learnt a lot from the video.....thanks to the lady.......sorry I forgot her name

The key : learn new things!!!! Help to develop new neurons🥰🥰🥰🥰 "More we learn, more connections we do"

How our memory works. I learned a lot from this video our memory works depends on how it actually supposed to do, it's when you actually remember that thing because it's unique or you and yourself want to remember that thing because it's amaze you or it's appropriate, the example of that is during exams you need to memorize the world in the book or you need to familiarize it since you need to answer and it's appropriate, another example is that when you saw a beautiful girl and it's amaze you so maybe you can't forget her face and you always remember that girl, another example your best friends surprised you on your birthday so that moments you always remember because it's amaze you. Our memory is perfect and design to be perfect, we can not remember the thing we didn't see or we didn't know of course we only remember the thing we pay attention and yes that is true we actually always did this as a human, example that we always did when someone catch our attention, they always on our mind, when you pay attention to thing you always catch your brain, you will always remember that thing, memory is amazing and it's essential for the functioning of almost everything we do, everything we do must give an attention everything like when you walking you must pay attention to this is worth applying in every each of us as a person. When you walk and you don't pay attention maybe it give to us in a danger when you don't pay attention maybe there is a car towards you, everything we do need to pay attention like also when you are studying even cooking and yes hope you agree. This is the note to those people that worth applying " Don't use your brain, use your check list." Using check list is sounds practice and it is not kind of cheating, that check list will always remind you what to do, and give you and Idea also it's very useful for short of time. So practice making check list as a student check list is very useful. THANK YOU❤️

Excellent. Thank you for a very clear, articulate, open, informative and honest talk.

what a relief! great to know! great info! thank you, Ms Genova!

I really needed this video. I literally took a final, went to sleep, just woke up so scared that I slept in and missed the final.

I'd already realized that we only remember what we pay attention to and what we deem to be important for us to remember, but I didn't know how I could remember things which I want to recall so thank you Ted talk!

This was so educating, I really wanted to know more about this to help family as well

Love this! Thanks so much!

If you can't remember where you've put something think to yourself: "My hands know where I've put it." It also helps if you close your eyes as you do this. A few minutes later... after having given up looking for it ... there's a good chance you'll find it.

Thank You so much for this talk/video. This talk answered lots of my questions

Personally, usually when its small things I need to find or do around my house I use a "mental" to do list. For example, if I were to look for my glasses, go grocery shopping and then study, instead of remembering sentences off by heart I'll think of it like this: Glasses, groceries, study. That's it! Its much easier for our brains to pay attention to 3 or four words instead of whole sentences. I hope that I have helped, and that everyone reading this is having a lovely day<3 make sure to consistently drink water and eat!! Also thank you for this Ted talk, very interesting