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- The Primitive Mind in every animal—humans included—has been optimized to near perfection at getting animals to survive long enough to pass their precious genes along to new containers.
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Ajinkya Wadhwa added 2y ago
- The Higher Mind and his magical thinking abilities helped the human species transform their typical animal hunter-gatherer world into undoubtedly the strangest of all animal habitats: an advanced civilization. The Higher Mind’s heightened awareness allows him to see the world with clear eyes, behave rationally in any environment, and adjust to chan... See more
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Ajinkya Wadhwa added 2y ago
- To see in 2D, we’re going to need x-ray goggles.
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- The Battle Over Our Beliefs
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- Once you get this second dimension into your thinking, you’ll notice yourself applying it everywhere.
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Ajinkya Wadhwa added 2y ago
- That’s where the second dimension comes in. When it comes to the way we think and the way we form our beliefs, the Psych Spectrum is our How You Think axis.
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Ajinkya Wadhwa added 2y ago
- Back to our dimensions. So many of our problems today stem from the oversimplification of complicated phenomena in our discussions. Thinking about the real world in one dimension is usually a bad idea.
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- The addition of the Psych Spectrum turns our thinking spectrum into a thinking square—and now our discussion can get interesting.
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- Most of the problems with humans can be boiled down to unchecked Primitive Minds getting their way against the Higher Mind’s better judgment.
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