i was a bit of a jigsaw snob. I saw them as a little broad and not too challenging. But i believe they do provide a different a pleasure, which is a meditative pleasure. They 're just so unexpected. Edge what looks like an edge piece is not an edge piece. There are pieces that don't belong in the puzzle at all. So i love that challenge. And also, i have a little section on sort of life lesson s that i learned from jigsaws. The idea of new anes and shades of gray, everything is gray. Very few things are black and white.
How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.