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43: Becoming prolific with David Kadavy

The Knowledge with David Elikwu

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The Benefits of Complementary Cognitive Artifacts

Cognitive artifacts are things that you can use to help your brain in some way. For example, walking or writing by hand helps parts of the brain as you're writing. The abacus is another one where you can become so good at the abacus that it helps you to do maths even when you don't have the abacus. So there's a lot of things that we can use that actually make us better, whether or not we have them. But there's a different set of things. A phone is one of them, a car is one of those and I was thinking about that earlier today.

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