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218 Dr. Erin Westgate on How to Create a Psychologically Rich Life

Behind the Brilliance

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Do You Have a Need for Cognitive Ability?

"I'm always astonished. I tell this story about a roommate in graduate school," she says. "She had like no need for cognition and I was super high at it." The folks who say they really like thinking those people who are high and need for cognition enjoy this experience of being told to, you know, sit down and enjoy your own thoughts,. They enjoy that a lot more than the folks who do not have that need for cognition".

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