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Loss aversion - most people stop at the first failure Summary: And those things have failed. And you know, and the way human psychology works is when you try something and it fails, the big lesson that you learn is never try that thing ever again. Transcript: Speaker 1 And those things have failed. And you know, and the way human psychology works is when you try something and it fails, the big lesson that you learn is never try that thing ever again. Right.

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show

By selecting and growing those few species of plants and animals that we can eat, so that they constitute 90 percent rather than 0.1 percent of the biomass on an acre of land, we obtain far more edible calories per acre. As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers— typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes.

Jared M. Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

1999, W. W. Norton & Company

In fact, through most of the twentieth century, it was believed that the brain was fixed, immutable, and static. Today we know that the brain has great plasticity and can change, adapt, and transform. It is molded by experience, repetition, and intention. It is only because of the extraordinary technological advances over the last few decades that we can see the brain’s ability to transform on a cellular, genetic, and even molecular level. Extraordinarily, as I learned, each of us has the ability to change the very circuitry of our brain.

Into the Magic Shop

James R. Doty, MD

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