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Tim Urban - Exploring Ourselves (EP.33)

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The Procrastinator Brain

"I try to separate the human mind inlice two things. If i'm not a nervo scientist, ad i haven't even really studied this, this is much more from intuition," he says. "My procrastinator brain as two things. Iis this rational decision maker and this instant gratification monkey." 'The higher mind isn't some new thing. It has evolved as well, just like the rest of us' He adds that most people are kind o programme? The default zone is y, just go along, don't think too much. But your primitive mind is programmed very specifically. Because if you're in a tribe 50 thousand b c, you might know five women

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