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A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

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The Key to Puzzles and the Key to Life, Is to Love the Exclamation Point

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A lot of a puzzled doing is compulsive. A little bit of suffering redeemed by a little bit of comfort at the end, right? Exactly. One of my favorite descriptions of puzzles was by this japanese puzzle maker, maki kaji. He describes it in three symbols: The question mark, thet forward arrow and the exclamation point.

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