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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The World Is Controlling Our Actions

The world is communicating to us not just indirectly in these categories and hierarchies, but it's also telling us how to behave. So diagrams are one way to improve our thinking in the small. Even written text is a way of improving our thinking, making lists. All those ways of externalizing mind can help bring it into the mind and improve it, especially if it's well designed.

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