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Richard Nisbett - Why Your Reasoning Is Flawed and How To Fix It

Smart People Podcast

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How to Solve Problems Using Our Conscience and Our Unconscious Mind

In a book by brewster giselin, virtually every single person tells you that the key idea they had, they weren't even thinking consciously about it when it popped into their heads. A friend of mine used to in calculus class, whod get stumped on a problem, and he learned, don't just keep working on it. Go to sleep. Wake up in the morning and the solution may be there. And i use it myself as generating thought questions fr for a seminar. If i wait until just before thesem ar right questions for next week's seminar, they're not going to be very good. They're so much better than what i would have done. Thereare

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