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We're Trapped On This Very Thin Slice Of Perception ... But Even At That Slice Of Reality That We Call Home, We're Not Seeing Most Of What's Going On.

I Spent My Adult Life As A Scientist, And Science Is, Essentially, The Most Successful Approach We Have To Try And Understand The Vast Mysteries Around.

Brains Are Like Representative Democracies. They Are Built Of Multiple, Overlapping Experts Who Weigh In And Compete Over Different Choices.

If You Cannot Always Elicit A Straight Answer From The Unconscious Brain, How Can You Access Its Knowledge? Sometimes The Trick Is Merely To Probe What Your Gut Is Telling You. So The Next Time A Friend Laments That She Cannot Decide Between Two Options, Tell Her The Easiest Way To Solve Her Problem: Flip A Coin. She Should Specify Which Option Belongs To Heads And Which To Tails, And Then Let The Coin Fly. The Important Part Is To Assess Her Gut Feeling After The Coin Lands. If She Feels A Subtle Sense Of Relief At Being "told" What To Do By The Coin, That's The Right Choice For Her.

I Always Bounce My Legs When I'm Sitting.