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Annie Murphy Paul - How to Overachieve with our Limited Brain

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Think Outside Your Brain, Use Your Body

When you talk about thinking right, when you say, think outside your brain, use your body, it actually is counter to pretty much how we're raised. That's why i struggled so much with, how can i think with anything other than the organ that thinks it'd be like if somebody said, throw a soft ball, not with your arm, or somethng? We absolutely do need to reconceptioize and get away from what is really just a very narrow, i would almost say like prejudice, or a bias in favor of the brain. And yet, my contention is that we're going to be needing to do that and more.

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