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Episode 1: Switchtracking

Hidden Brain

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How Do You Know if Someone Is Giving You Advice?

When someone gives you feedback, there's two ways to think about a don. Or you can say, why is this person telling me this? You can question the motives of the adviser. A few years ago, max gunther at vanderbilt university and his colleagues, they analyzed the brains of men. And he found that when the advice was on a subject where the man thought of himself as being an expert, advice from the wives activated a part of the brain that is observed when we try to guess what's happening in another person's mind. So here's ta takehome message, be really careful about offering advice. If you're given advice, listen to the advice instead of questioning

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