
Thriving in the Face of Contradiction
Hidden Brain
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Is There Pressure to Make a Choice?
In some ways we're simplifying the world by presenting it to ourselves as an either or choice. And being able to make that choice makes us feel more comfortable. So once we do land on one side or the other of this, either or binary, other cognitive mechanisms get set into motion. It becomes the idea of, you know, if I have a hammer, everything is a nail.
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