What did you have for lunch yesterday? Where did you celebrate your birthday in 1981? What was your fourth grade teacher’s name?
Chances are there’s at least one of these things you can’t remember. Maybe you can’t remember any of them.
But what if you can remember all of them, effortlessly?
Probably have a much sharper memory than you think you have, says the popular actress Marilu Henner.
She is one of only about 100 people with an ability known as “hyperthymesia.” That’s a fancy way of saying she can remember just about every detail of her own life going back to childhood.
In 2012 Marilu Henner wrote a book called Total Memory Makeover. And in it she explains how even if you don’t have hyperthymesia you can teach yourself how to remember a lot more than you think you can.
So here now, from 2012. Marilu Henner.
Marilu Henner is 73 now. By the way,DO you remember what you had for lunch yesterday…?
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