The year of living bikly was about the puzzle of religion, but it definitely expanded. i wanted this to get across this grand thesis that the puzzle mind is an ode to curiosity. It's all about how a i heard this phrase from a child psychologist when about raising kits, don't get furious. Get curious. And i loved it not just ecause it rhymes, but because i do think it's true.
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Our guest in this episode is A.J. Jacobs, the the four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks A Thousand, It’s All Relative, and The Know It All.
His new book, The Puzzler, is a fun, weird, refreshingly scientific book all about the human brain's fascination with puzzles. Seriously, there’s all sorts of explorations in the book about neural pathways, behavioral routines, how we learn, what gets us into loops, and - this is true - a few attempts to solve the puzzle of our very existence.
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