18min chapter

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John Cleese and Iain McGilchrist (First Night)

The Harper’s Podcast

CHAPTER

The Need for Certainty and Precision

The chapter discusses the importance of allowing creative ideas to develop before engaging the logical critical side, and how different characteristics of Fast and Slow Thinking relate to the left and right hemispheres of the brain. It also explores the impact of rushing on decision-making and bias, as well as the concept of neural pathways and cultural differences in decision-making.

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