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You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

We can be aware of what psychologists call solution aversion. If you propose a way to fix a problem and people don't like your solution, they often reject not only the solution but also the problem in the first place. Sometimes it might be possible that inflexibility is actually the right answer. Some of history's greatest leaders have been relatively inflexible. And I think that the art much more than science is figuring out when to stay the course or shift gears.

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