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214: Gabriel Weinberg | How Mental Models Boost Super Thinking

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Semweiss Reflex

The idea that we reject new ideas kind of on a reflex turns out it is a reflex. People think that science is very methodical without emotion, but it turns out when you look back through the history of science, basically we go way, way far before we believe the outsider and then it changes science. He discovered this was in the 1800s; all sorts of babies were dying at childbirth. And he finally figured out that it was because the doctors were doing cadaver research with delivering babies and not washing their hands. So gross.

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