Negative events, such as the death of a loved one, the death of a dream, or a significant setback, serve as major timestamps that mark time and are more easily recalled in memory than positive events.

“earlier you mentioned that one of the major kind of uh timestamps if you will is a bad event like a oh [ __ ] like the things went completely differently than I would have preferred them to it could be the death of another could be the death of a dream could be a a you know a setback a re whatever that it it marks time and we just had these fires I mean La will be before and after the fires of 2025 yeah um you know I remember uh early in 2020 Kobe Bryant dying right so so these things I remember the Challenger explosion like negative events you know occupy a uh a certain place in our memory more easily than positive events”