Memory Scientist’s Guide To Building A 100X Sharper Brain | Nikolay Kukushkin | FO571 Raj Shamani

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
03:58 - Who Is Nikolay Kukushkin?
06:26 - How Your Brain Changes Every Time You Learn
14:28 - Can You Train Your Brain to Remember the Right Things?
18:59 - Why Your Memories May Not Be as Accurate as You Think
23:27 - The Memory Palace & Why We Forget
33:25 - Why Trying to Forget Something Can Make It Worse
37:52 - The Secret to Solving Problems: Slow-Motion Multitasking
39:45 - How Much of Your Personality Can You Actually Change?
46:27 - Why Sleep Matters for Memory & Learning
52:35 - Why You Remember Some Things for Longer Than Others
1:01:21 - Why Your Brain Wants to Be Right Even When You're Wrong
1:09:11 - Dopamine & Desire
1:18:02 - Why Your Brain Is Never Satisfied
1:22:07 - How Smells & Songs Trigger Powerful Memories
1:30:42 - Why You Can't Remember Being a Baby
1:37:56 - How Evolution Shapes Memory, Motivation & Human Behavior
1:44:27 - Why You'll Never Feel Completely Satisfied With Life
1:47:26 - Are Pleasure, Validation & Status Evolutionarily Designed?
1:59:37 - Anxiety, Jealousy & Other Flaws That Come From Evolution
2:03:34 - What Is Memory, Really?
2:08:22 - What Actually Changes the Human Brain?
2:13:13 - Can You Rewire Your Brain by Doing Unexpected Things?
2:20:48 - Can You Escape Your Brain's Survival Programming?
2:27:01 - The One Piece of Advice Nobody Should Follow
2:29:19 - The Personal Cost of Becoming a Memory Scientist
2:30:25 - Outro

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In today's episode, we sit down with Nikolay Kukushkin — Neuroscientist, Author & Teacher — a memory scientist who calls himself a "molecular philosopher" and studies how molecules and cells create memory, motivation and consciousness.

We discuss why your brain rewrites a memory every time you recall it, why talking about a bad memory can make it stronger, how a man who remembered everything couldn't live a normal life, why dopamine is about wanting rather than pleasure, and why evolution built you to never feel satisfied.

It's a conversation that will change how you see your own mind — and the story you tell yourself about your past.

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