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#608 - Paul Bloom - How Does The Human Mind Work?

Modern Wisdom

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The Benefits of Human Variety

If we had pigeonholed every human to be this much agreeable and this much neurotic, you wouldn't have as effective of a tribe. It might well be that in some ways, some degree of human variety turns out to be adaptive. If enough people are disagreeable, an agreeable person, oh yeah, everybody wants to be with them. "It's like a personality arms race in a way"

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