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Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson
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Premature Cognitive Commitment
Psychologists use the term premature cognitive commitment to identify the human and animal tendency to cling to familiar assumptions, even when new facts are brought to light. A recent study posits that of the 62 hundred or so individual thoughts that we have per day, only a small percentage are new. In early 20 i interviewed tarra swart, a neuro scientist and former psychiatric doctor, now a senior lecturer at m i t sloane's school of management who told me the brain becomes less malleable from 25-65 years old.
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