The smarter you are, the easier it is to deceive you. Deception starts with you deceiving yourself. A really good thinker is wrong a ton of times because you're thinking about how one screw here is going to come loose and no one's going to be able to fix it. The primitive mind built the entire world that we see around us. But what you've got to understand is that most of your beliefs are wrong.
In this episode we spoke with Tim Urban, founder and writer at Wait But Why? In this super episode Jim and Tim discuss: • The story of us • Managing and taming our biases • Flat earthers and how we’re no different • Overcoming our outdated mental hardware • and MUCH more. Follow Tim on Twitter (Twitter.com/waitbutwhy) and check out his site (waitbutwhy.com)