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You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

We're Reluctant to Think Again

In the 1980s, NASA downplayed a brewing problem in the spacecraft Challenger. In the early 1960s, diplomat George Ball warned President John F. Kennedy and then President Lyndon Johnson about the risks of entering and escalating the Vietnam War. Or take the US war in Iraq, where President George W. Bush and his colleagues failed to rethink their views after their initial, rosy expectations of the war.

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