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#539 - Sam Tatam - Evolutionary Ideas For Modern Problems

Modern Wisdom

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The Oddball Effect

The more familiar we become, our attentional resources tend to go down. Our brain is not taking as many photos all the time because it doesn't need to in a familiar environment. In a novel environment or under stress and pressure or in danger, our brains look into capture every element to help us to survive. When we have an essence of expectation of what to experience, then that time goes faster. And when we're bored, we often think that we're sort of just like doing nothing,. But when we're actually really stressed, we're really stressed. We're stressed times slows down. The last is looking at what's known as the peak end - how it ends and how it

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