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#1177 Have You Immunised Your Mind? - Dr. Andy Norman

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How to Test Ideas in Imagination

We can all benefit from thinking more about how we think. It turns out that a lot of our thinking is suboptimal. If you know anything about how toasters work, and clearly you do because you know that it's not a good idea to stick knives into them, then you have a mental model about those to work. We can test ideas in imagination. We cantest ideas stories. Our minds are a little simulation chambers where you can ask yourself, what would happen if? That's a risk free way of trying to find out if an idea is a good one or a relatively low risk way to finding out if an Idea is a Good One.

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