Is It Possible for Employees to Hold Incompatible Beliefs?

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A sane mind is designed to hold beliefs that are inconsistent with each other. The best course of action for our brain is to have different regions with different opinions, and then have something that produces a single course of action. We usually think that our brain thinks as but that is wrong. Just like our elections in a country, they produce oneinpassion,. That the presidento they chose this precident. It doesn't mean that everyone thought the same.

Why do people eat too much even when they don't want to? Why are there so many bad managers? And why might anti-vaxxers be useful? Luca Dellanna, author of The Control Heuristic, thinks the answers to all of these questions are in our heads, or rather in our basal ganglia. Dellanna talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why both brains and employees need immediate feedback, why we're wired to believe our best guesses, and why addiction is just our brain's way of making sure we survive.