So I'm reading along and come across some eye-opening dialog which the author is sharing with the reader. I'm doing a little cherry-picking here but I think you'll pick up the idea.
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Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does.
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Later, referring to a discussion relayed by someone else.
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In large part, he believes, the mistakes happened because he wasn't able to damp down the cocaine brain.
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... he found his brain working against him, latching onto evidence that confirmed his initial hunch and dismissing the signs of a downside. It's what the brain does.
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Sound familiar?
Why didn't that great sounding WSO pan out?
"I was so excited about _______ a few weeks ago. Wonder why that fizzled out?"
I think this confirms something that I suspected for some time.
Just sharing.
Joe Mobley
From
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
The bartender says: "We don't serve faster-than-light particles here."
...A tachyon enters a bar.
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