In this episode we address the ways in which we think. We humans often behave in ways that are “irrational”, and this underlies many of our collective problems. Using some of the underlying neuroscience, I will show that this is not because we are badly informed or incapable of thinking about long-term consequences. Rather, what we consider “rational” thinking isn’t our default mode (and also it is hard, and it isn’t all that rational). Instead, most of our “thinking” is unconscious, and our conscious thinking is driven more by stories and feelings than by facts.

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