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445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

Freakonomics Radio

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I've Never Eaten That. Let Me Try It.

The age at which people are most risk taking and novelty seeking is not our age, it's tea natures. Research by robert sposki argues that we get less open to novelty as we get older. If you're not listening to a certain style of music by the time you're twenty eight or so, ninety five per cent chanc you're never going to. And he'v seen that in primates as well. So i get that there's an evolutionary explanation for this. But though we don't want to drive s off cliffs at any age, i do think we could channel our inner tee nature....

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