The Puzzle of Life (with A.J. Jacobs) - Ep 144
Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger
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How to Solve a Puzzle
The book is about the journey our brains go on when we're trying to solve puzzles. One of the people who wrote a profile in the book was summarizing the process our brain goes through with, oh, i think i know who you mean, i think you mean the godfather of sudoku. He had a three character summary of puzzles that i loved because it was just so simple. And he wrote on the white board, question mark, arrow, exclamation point. What does that represent? Well, the question mark is the beginning. You're given a situation that's baffling. The arrow is your ing with the puzzle, and the exclamation point is the aha
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