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Rationality and Cognitive Science (with Anna Riedl)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Power of Invisible Walls

It's very rare that the advice we need involves just like telling us a fact about the world or something like that, right? Yes. Two really good examples to get what he means with that. So one is the nine dot problem which you might have heard of or might have seen before,. And it's so interesting because you just implicitly assume you are not allowed to leave the square and then you cannot combine all of them. But once you've understood you are allowed to, it was never explicitly said that you're not allowed to. Then it's super easy.Yeah, this is a great point because a lot of times we're constrained without even realizing we're constrained, right? Like

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