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11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?

No Stupid Questions

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Habituation Is a Heuristic

Habituation makes you more sensitive to things that are probably more important from a survival standpoint. So like the bunny rabbit that didn't attack me, even though it had a hundred opportunities to attack me, I'm not going to worry about the bunny rabbit anymore. The upside is that we habituate and it's a heuristic. It's a shortcut and it lets us get on with our lives. We don't have toorry about the things we don’t have to worry about essentially, right? Yeah. Well, can I suggest an upside? You're the psychologist. Go.

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