How to Over Achieve With Limited Storage Space

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We're not really taught about the limits of our own brains, says ifo. We blame ourselves when we don't do as well as we would have done in a different situation. Experts are masters at extending their thinking with the body and other people than novices who try to do it all in their heads. And that's actually an interesting new way of thinking about experts - someone who has managed to transcend the limits of their by getting really good at extending.

Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing. She is the author of Origins, selected by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book,” and The Cult of Personality. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 2.6 million times. Annie is a recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellowship at New America.

You can learn more about Annie at: anniemurphypaul.com.

Annie's book, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, is available now.

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