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#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is There a Snowball in Your Head?

Information that's already inside your head, has a tendency to sort of get wired up in more and more complex ways. And people love that. It's an addictive process. But the basis for the interconnection isa blindness. I mean, it's not supported by more reality data. If you don't have constant reality data coming, i into your mental model, you'll make all possible connections, and they won't actually contain any information. They'll just be patterns that sort of become evident,. The actual value of the formation is depreciating slowly, like a bank account. That's almost like tisinr the equalent of a financial bubble going on inside your head.

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