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Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Psychology of Solving Problems

You talk a lot about the psychology of solving these problems, like the different emotions that you go through and handling that. Did anything surprise you with some of these problems? Well, it is a more far more emotional experience because you know, you get frustration, you get joy, you get surprised. I will say in terms of solving puzzles and problems of all kinds, frustration is the enemy. And if you get to frustrated, you got to walk away Because the frustration is just going to bring you into this narrow hole where you cannot come up with a solution.

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