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How To Literally Become Smarter with Annie Murphy Paul

The Liz Moody Podcast

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Thinking Outside the Brain

One of my favorite concepts from the extended mind literature is that we are intrinsically loopy creatures. Our unique biological intelligence benefits from creating loops whereby we take ideas and information out of our heads and loop it through other mediums. We all know how our thoughts and ideas can be enriched by talking to another person, or even by printing it out and seeing it. One way of creating a cognitive loop that I think is really underused is creating a three dimensional model of the problem that we're trying to solve. The more we can make our knowledge work resemble those kinds of hands on embodied activities, the better we'll be able to think.

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