Certainty
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1 min readJul 10, 2016
Season 1, Episode 2
In this episode, I talk more about the challenges we face when building on the foundations that we outlined in episode 1. Specifically, why our brains are so attracted to things like certainty, and why in our modern world it’s a big problem. Then, Jason Gots (host of Think Again, a Big Think Podcast) and I also chat about strategies for overcoming these challenges.
In This Episode
- Guest: Jason Gots — Host of Think Again
- Book: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Book: The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
- Book: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Episode Influences & Suggested Content
- Article: A Hunger for Certainty
- Article: Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty by Maria Popova
- Book: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Episode Music
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