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233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs

You Are Not So Smart

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How to Avoid Puzzling?

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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