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Lessons About the Brain with Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Behavioral Design Podcast

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Your Brain's Most Important Job Is Budgeting

Your brain's most important job is regulating your body. It's making sure that your internal systems are coordinated to keep you alive and well. You can think about it like supply chain management, right? The ingredients or parts that are needed to build something arrive just before they're needed. And once you understand that, a lot of other mysteries disappear.

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