Want a Better Memory? Start Here

Sanjay Gupta· Host0:00

[pensive music] How many times have you thought to yourself, "I wanna remember something," and then you forgot it almost immediately? And maybe it's a name, it's a fact, or maybe even it's why you walked into a room. This probably sounds familiar. It happens to all of us. It happens to me. We live at a time when our attention is pulled in every direction, and that's a fundamental problem. What happens instead is that a lot of people start to assume they are just bad with names, they can't focus, or maybe they're not fast learners, but what you wanna remember is that memory, focus, and learning are not fixed traits. These are skills, and like any skill, they can be trained. That should be deeply inspiring to anybody listening, and my guest today knows this better than anyone. Nelson Dellis is a six-time US memory champion who not only trained his brain to work better, but he also wrote about it for his new book called Everyday Genius. So today, we're gonna do a deep dive into how memory actually works, how to improve it, and then how to focus and even learn better in a world that's full of distractions. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, and this is Chasing Life. [pensive music] Your memory is at another level. It's, it's sort of superhuman memory, and this