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Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors

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The Night Shift in the Brain

I want to touch on two mental concepts. One is this concept of your brain having a night shift, and what happens there in the first place. There's a famous story that makes the rounds periodically about a german chemist named kakuya who was trying to figure out how benzine was constructed. And he woke up and realized that benzine is a ring. It's a ring of carbon atoms. He had the solution. This invisible processing power of the brain body complex is called, by many, the unconscious. I just like that term, and cormac like that term as well. And it's an a part of your life. But nobody knows where e or how it works

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