24. Why Do We Forget So Much of What We’ve Read?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2020-10-25

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Also: do we overestimate or underestimate our significance in other people’s lives? 

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  • We want to be praised.

  • We want to be praiseworthy.

  • I want to get a candle.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • Why do we forget some of our favorite books?

  • We don't always remember what we remember.

  • Also, do we overestimate our significance in other people's lives?

  • This is so forward.

  • He's just arrived and he wants to come join our group.

  • Steven, I've been thinking about a conversation that we had about a tree grows in Brooklyn.

  • Do you recall this conversation?

  • I do recall that conversation.

  • You said you loved that book.

  • Loved, loved, loved it.

  • But you couldn't remember a single thing about it.

  • Yeah.

  • So I thought you might have even forgotten the conversation about how I had forgotten.

  • But anyway, my point is that it's a really interesting thing that people can read books that they absolutely love so much that they're like evangelical.