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Good News About Our Brains: We Can Physically Alter Them For The Better

Good News About Our Brains: We Can Physically Alter Them For The Better

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David Gerken
Aug 08, 2024
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My last article explained why we humans think so many useless, involuntary thoughts that cause us so much misery.

I laid the blame mostly on our obsolete brains, which aren’t much different now than they were 200,000 years ago. Bottom line: We have hunter-gatherer brains that are poorly designed to handle the frenzied nature of the high-tech, busy-body …

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