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27: David Eagleman | How Your Brain Makes Sense of the World

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Flipping a Coin to Make a Decision

A lot of people say, oh, if you want to make a decision and it's sort of a binary yes or no decision, you should flip a coin. But can we access that by flipping that coin and then our brain wants one side to land because it's already made the decision based on all these subconscious factors? Yeah, I recommend this all the time. My mother taught me this was like eight years old. This thing about flip the coin and let it land. And then when you see what it is, see if you feel disappointed or not. That's the key is,. It's a terrific way to quickly probe your essentially, it's getting your emotions to give you the

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