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You, But Better

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

Thinking Like an Engineer About Problem Solving

In some ways, this whole approach of thinking about our minds almost as engineering problems, i think, comes across very clearly in this book. And i do think because i learn to think like an engineer about problem solving, to recognize you can't solve a problem unlss and then strategically overcome them. If there's one lesson really that's come from almost 20 years of research on behaviora science and trying to change behavior for the better, it is that too often we don't think like engineers.

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