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Adam Robinson: Cracking the System and Simplifying Life’s Complexities

Smarter Not Harder

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The Trade-Off Between Working Memory and Sinking Capacity

"I have a hard time understanding things. And my working memory is probably significantly below average," he says. "If I said, in what year did the last Olympics fall on a year ending in a zero, at that point you have to start to sink." The more things you load your short-term memory with to think about, the less capacity you have to think.

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