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#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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I'm Not Disciplined, but I Have One Thing I Like About My Life

I wonder if that'll affect our feelings differently. I think one of the reasons we have this feeling about the brain is that we we attribute too much meaning to it. So when you remember this niceness tale with your wife somewhere, you not only enjoy the nastalgia, but you attribute to it as, oh, that's something that's important to me because i remembered it spontaneously. And if it were forced upon maryb, not forced, but were triggered externally, i wouldn't have that same attributionIf, like, i must think that's important. Is it? Like we know that we belch and fart, and we don't attribute deep meaning to belches or...

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