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

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  We want to be praised.

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  We want to be praiseworthy.

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  I want to get a candle.

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  I'm Angela Duckworth.

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  I'm Stephen Dubner.

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  And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

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  Today on the show, why do we forget some of our favorite books?

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  We don't always remember what we remember.

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

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  This is so forward.

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

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  Stephen,

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

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  Do you recall this conversation?

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  I do recall it.

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  You said you loved that book, loved, loved,

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  loved it, but you couldn't remember a single thing about it.

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  Yeah,

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

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  But anyway,

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