You were there. You experienced everything. Your first laugh. Your first taste of ice cream. Your first steps.

And you remember absolutely none of it.

Why?

In this episode, Daniel asks one of those questions that sounds simple until you really sit with it — why can't we remember being babies? And the answer turns out to be one of the most surprising things we've ever figured out together.

It starts with a part of your brain called the hippocampus — the memory librarian. Its job is to take everything that happens to you and file it away so you can find it later. The problem? When you were a baby, that librarian was brand new on the job. Hadn't learned the filing system yet. So things happened — big things, small things, wonderful things — and the librarian just didn't know where to put any of it. ...