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061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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Neuroplasticity - The London Cabbies

There's a part of the brain that is responsible for remembering space. Essentially, it makes a map for you in your brain. The people on earth who have the biggest, most complicated map in their brain are London cab drivers. You can't just drop in from somewhere else and just become a London cabbie. You have to memorize the city literally because there's just no heuristic for it.

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