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THINKING, FAST & SLOW (DANIEL KAHNEMAN) - Listening books
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The Importance of Mental Struggles
Mental life normally conducted at the pace of a comfortable walk, sometimes interrupted by episodes of jogging and on rare occasions by a frantic sprint. We found that people when engaged in a mental sprint may become effectively blind. Our subjects were exposed to a series of rapidly flashing letters while they worked. Failures of detection followed the same inverted V pattern as the dilating pupil. Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used.
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