i love the way you created a game to illustrate this, learning to live with puzzles that will never be solved. i do think we need that kind of uncertain thinking and being ok with not having black and white answers. There are some people who fill crosswords in and pen and they sort of ave got a macho agger,. I am all about the pencil. The eraser is one of the greatest things because everything should be probablistic. You can't become attached to it. So i the worstpa cross word solving is when i say, this is the word, and i refuse to change it. Wi sang, i think this is it, but i'm uncertain.
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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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