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S9, Ep6 How to Fail: Failosophy Special
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
How to Talk to Yourself
Your brain takes complex concepts, turns them into a simple small number of words as it can and it speaks to you. MIT did an experiment in 2007 that shows vividly that participants will solve problems in their brains first and then take up to eight seconds using their verbal association engine the part of our brain we use to speak out loud before they actually hear the answer from their brain to themselves. Now your brain is literally talking to you if you don't believe me ask yourself this. If it was you talking to you why would you need to talk? It's a third party it's a biological function. We glorify that biological function to the point where it takes over our entire life.
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