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A Neuroscientist’s Curious Approach to Dying
The Brain Wiring and the Concept of Afterlife
AI Key Takeaways
- The fact that our brains are always predicting the future presupposes the existence of a future.
- It is difficult for humans to truly imagine themselves gone because our brain's wiring is based on the idea of a future moment.
- Most world religions have a concept of the afterlife or consciousness enduring after death.
- The universal presence of after-death stories may be due to our brain's inclination to imagine a future moment and cultural influences.
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142: Scrying Your List
How to think about your To-Do List Items
AI Key Takeaways
- Identify the critical tasks that must be done in a day before leaving work by mentally asking which tasks would require staying late or working longer to complete
- Include tasks that save significant time and stress the following day in addition to mission-critical tasks on a to-do list
- To-do lists can contain functionally infinite tasks but setting a hard boundary of must-be-done-today tasks is essential
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76. Change My Mind: Using “Pre-suasion” to Influence Others
Using the Word Advice Instead of Opinion
AI Key Takeaways
- Language can be used to persuade others to support or agree with an idea.
- To get the most favorable feedback, ask for advice rather than opinion.
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#163 Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life
Position Yourself for Success
AI Key Takeaways
- Chess is a deterministic game, with a finite number of moves.
- Positioning is important in chess, to ensure that you can handle whatever is thrown at you.
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87. Know What You’re Saying: How Communicating Tests Our Understanding
Human API
AI Key Takeaways
- Being multilingual and understanding different disciplines and functional areas within a business is important in today's world.
- Specialization can lead to difficulty in communicating with people in different functional areas within an organization.
- To be successful in business, one needs to be able to effectively translate between tech and non-tech areas and business objectives.
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257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd
People Disagree on Whether Penguins are Heavy or Light
AI Key Takeaways
- Research suggests that people have different subjective experiences when thinking about penguins
- There is evidence supporting the claim that people have different penguin concepts
- Context does not account for differences in penguin concepts
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84. Quick Thinks: How Others Define Us
What are you most excited about in life right now?
AI Key Takeaways
- Asking deeper questions can lead to more meaningful conversations.
- One specific question to ask is 'What are you most excited about in life right now?'
- Asking follow-up questions can help continue the depth of the conversation.
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Drum Tower: China v America
The Importance of Focusing on What Makes America Strong
AI Key Takeaways
- America's immigration policy is at a standstill, and this is causing problems for the US.
- America needs to focus more on its strengths in order to be successful.
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#159 Dr. Anna Lembke: Between Pleasure and Pain
The Definition of Addiction
AI Key Takeaways
- Addiction is a severe form of psychopathology that is defined as the continued compulsive use of a substance or behavior, despite harm to self and or others.
- When we make this clinical diagnosis, we use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which has these 11 criteria.
- The more criteria you meet, the more addicted you are on the spectrum of mild, moderate to severe, and those criteria can simply be summarized as the four Cs, control, compulsions, cravings, and consequences.
- Quantity and frequency are not in those criteria. It's not because quantity and frequency don't matter. If you use more of a drug and you use it more often, you're more likely to get addicted. But the reason that it's not in the DSM, which is our sort of Bible of diagnosis, is because they wanted a unifying diagnosis for all different forms of addiction, and so they didn't want to put quantity and frequency in there.
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#158 Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
What Are the Ways That Organizations Sabotage Theirself From the Inside?
AI Key Takeaways
- Organizations sabotage themselves from the inside by doing things like scarring on the first cut, overoptimizing for proxies rather than reality, and confusing the context they're operating in.
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