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David Perell—Write to Find Yourself (EP.119)

Infinite Loops

CHAPTER

How to Move People Back Away From the Recency Bias

How do we move people back away from the recency bias? We are hyperbolic discounters. And that is why so few people do well, because they let the lizard part of their brain make the choice for them. What i find works really well is book clubs and focus on old books. When you come across an article, save it to an ap called insta paper,. Then when it's like time to read, go open your read it later ap. Now cho use from the best of all the things that you're doing. But once again, it's like gravity. Every time that you fight against gravity, you're fightigntropy. It is constant push.

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