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“In the windowless, basement room I looked like I usually did, long wild hair, flannel shirt, construction boots. In the modern conference room, I had my hair slicked back, I wore a tie, I had on the suit my dad wore to my bar mitzvah. Some of the students who studied in both places thought I was a different guy.” Lol!

The theory is that memory is two parts, storage and retrieval. The brain can store like 3 million movies, so storage isn’t the issue, retrieving the memories is. Back in hunter gatherer days, we needed to be able to recall old information when similar situations appeared, but couldn’t spend a lot of time remembering things we didn’t need at the time. I wish my retrieval was better!