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Create Epic Breakthroughs By Blasting Away Your Biases & Assumptions with Dr. Beau Lotto

The Science of Success

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The Importance of Illusions

There are only illusions if you assume that the brain evolved to see the world accurately. By definition, an illusion is to see it differently from the way it really is. So in our own work, we've shown that we can take illusions and make one more or less consistent with different types of what we call empirical significance. And we can either increase or decrease the illusion accordingly.

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