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231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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This episode, we sit down with neurologist robert burton. He talks about the nero science behind aha moments. And he uses this description as an example. See if you can make sense of it. Did you feel difference? Did you feel your mind change from uncertainty to certainty? As burton put it, you feel the prior discomfort of something amiss shifting to a pleasing sense of rightness. That is what burton calls the feeling of knowing.

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