An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems
Hidden Brain
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The Ritual Paradox, Unpack That Idea for Me
The ritual paradox is that on the one hand, people attribute tremendous meaning and importance to those rituals. And yet when I ask them why they do it, they very often cannot come up with an answer. So you had first-hand experience of what it was like to participate in one of these rituals. When you were a small boy growing up in Greece, I understand when you were eight years old, your dad took you on an important, let's call it an expedition. Can you describe where he took you and what you saw?
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