How to Avoid Puzzling?

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Thao: I know how dangerous it is to get locked into trying to get if once you get into something deeply philosophical and puzzling. As a person, is super ubsesse with puzzlingho how do you avoid this phenaria? Well, i would say, you remember the japanese puzzle maker with the question mark and the arrow and the exclamation point? And he drew that and then said, the key is, you've got to love the arrow. You have to love the journey, not just the destination. At the end of the book, i actually helped create a puzzle that literally cannot be solved, so you have to enjoy the process.

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Our guest in this episode is A.J. Jacobs, the the four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks A Thousand, It’s All Relative, and The Know It All.

His new book, The Puzzler, is a fun, weird, refreshingly scientific book all about the human brain's fascination with puzzles. Seriously, there’s all sorts of explorations in the book about neural pathways, behavioral routines, how we learn, what gets us into loops, and - this is true - a few attempts to solve the puzzle of our very existence.

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