Peter Attia· MD
and I I don't know I don't know if I'm sure you've experienced this in your own life oh yeah I mean I think that um you so it one way to describe it in the context of the neural architectures that we've been talking about is you have all the necessary rule sets to complete all the demands of your daily life from parenting to podcasting to running your clinical practice and on and on and so you know how to toggle between those you know not to apply one rule set in the wrong context and you just go go go go go and there's an energetic cost to that when we are singularly focused on one context even if it's one conceptual context you still have the same amount of total neural architecture right now it's just concentrated just devoted to that I mean I still have images burned in my brain of neural tissue looking that I was viewing down the microscope I can close my eyes and still see it now I don't have a I'm not um you know photographic memory I don't have a photographic memory I used to have an audio graphic memory where I could turn on a recorder in my head and then I could listen back to those conversations in the evening a very uh dangerous uh thing to have actually and to get into an argument with me at that time was no good but the uh because I I could remember what you said I lost that ability and I think I lost that ability not because I truly lost it but I'm thinking about other things now