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Alex Gausman
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.”
― Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
― Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
“During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity and the association of contraries from it's field of vision...The rational approach starts from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.”
― The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
― The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
“The most surprising discovery made by Baumeister’s group shows, as he puts it, that the idea of mental energy is more than a mere metaphor. The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body, and effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive in the currency of glucose.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors. Here again, as in the mere exposure effect, the connection makes biological sense. A good mood is a signal that things are generally going well, the environment is safe, and it is all right to let one’s guard down. A bad mood indicates that things are not going very well, there may be a threat, and vigilance is required.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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