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What things in life *shouldn't* we optimize? (with Christie Aschwanden)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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Did You Experience Childhood Trauma?

There's also an incentive for the people writing the paper to make it sound really interesting, right? And then you have to get accepted in a journal and essentially one of the main criteria is like, is this an interesting finding? When they're describing what they found, the description makes that way more interesting than the actual thing itself when you kind of read in detail. I remember one paper on whether people who had experienced trauma in childhood were less likely to explore if they had the option to explore. It was an Apple picking video game where it was actually like seemed like the most boring game ever. Then it was like, oh, people had childhood trauma, like switch trees more often. Like

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