Annie Murphy Paul - How to Overachieve with our Limited Brain
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Thinking Outside the Brain
Think outside the brain can be seen a number of ways, but in this example, thinking outside the brain just simply means like, i can off load some things, know where they are, but not have to store them inside. They're stored outside, in a place i understand, yet my brain still kind of picks them out, chooses when to use them. Is that a fair depiction, slash analogy, of thinkingoutside the brain? It is. And we all the most familiar example of the way that we do that all the time is with our smart phones, right? I mean, our smart phones effectively act as an extension of our minds. So it's good to offload that
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