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445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

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The Exploration/Exploitation Trade Off

An animal at any given point in time has a decision to about how much to explore new things or exploit the things that they already know. i think if we understand that over the course of life, we tend to explore less and less as we reach our forties, fiftye sixties. We should basically be living like tenagers, we should be buying really fast cars. Maybe put a parachute on it if you want a plac safe and drive him off cliffs. That's one of the things we openly talk about. Don't minimize your role when things are tough. Have ownership over what'sa piring. Don't blame others. Don't state problems. Let's openly talk about...

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