Episode 188: What We're Fighting For: A Glimpse 20 Years Down the Road
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How Our Brains Work
Our brains are designed to work with something called heuristics. Heuristics just means shortcuts. It's a fancy word for a brain shortcut. And one thing that you can actually do is use those to your advantage instead of trying to fight them all the time. Okay, so this and these heuristics are also often lead to bias. So we learn, for example, if you got a dog attack you when you were younger and you might realize, okay, so big dogs like that are scary. And you and then you get something called confirmation bias, which every time you hear a dog growl and it's a big dog, you say, oh, my brain, yes
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