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# What Is Good Mental Health? & The Weird Thing About Memory
February 23 2024
Written by Mike Carruthers.
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Are the things in your kitchen laid out efficiently? We often place kitchen items randomly – or wherever they fit. This episode begins with a quick little test you can do that could ultimately save you hours in the kitchen. Source: Mary Collette Rogers author of [Take Control of Your Kitchen.](https://amzn.to/4bGts7q)
What does it mean to be mentally healthy? Is it possible to have outstanding mental health or are we all a bit flawed? To get a better understanding about your mental health, I’d like you to listen to Camilla Nord. She leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge and she is author of the book [The Balanced Brain – The Science of Mental Health.](https://amzn.to/3SK1IpA) She offers some great insight into how a mentally healthy brain handles the ups and downs of life.
Just because you remember something doesn’t mean that is how it happened. While the human memory is amazing and serves us well, it can be amazingly inaccurate. The fact is you forget a lot more than you remember and over time those memories blur, fade and distort. Yet without your memory, you wouldn’t be able to function. To bring this all into focus is Charan Ranganath. He is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis and author of the book [Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters.](https://amzn.to/42Lp8zt)
Is it true that having a large and bold signature says something about your personality? Maybe so according to [a study of 605 bosses with big signatures. Listen as I explain why working for one of those types of bosses might be challenging. ](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2275180/Does-boss-sign-flourish%20CEOs-big-signatures-likely-narcissists-study-reveals.html)
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