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Annie Murphy Paul - How to Overachieve with our Limited Brain

Smart People Podcast

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The Limits of the Brain

We're not built to think alone. Reasoning evolved as a capacity that's meant to be used socially, in interaction with other people. When we use it by ourselves, when we do that, thinking by ourselves, we run into all kinds of problems. We are fundamentally social creatures. And so we actually think better when we think with other people and igive.

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