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Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Are You Quitting Puzzles?

I think you mentioned one time in the book, and correct me if I'm wrong about the, if I misremember it, but you said there was one point in your life where you either quit puzzles or you were thinking about quitting puzzles. And it just, it just didn't work. So trying to reframe problems, crises, arguments as puzzles, I find incredibly helpful and it makes me happier. There's a quote from Quincy Jones, the great music producer who says, I don't have problems, I have puzzles.

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