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#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Brain Instantly and Involuntarily Reacts to Whatever Information It Sees

The human brain's instant reaction mechanism processes salient information in just a fraction of a second, which makes it susceptible to the toxic mix of rapid information dissemination through social media and the internet. Without systematic mechanisms to discern good information from bad, reliable information from propaganda, society is at risk of suffering, as noted by Charle Munger at the Daily Journal meeting in Los Angeles.

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