Juan Orbea

But the lure of the current hill is strong. He ends up falling for a common trap highlighted by behavioral economists: people tend to systematically overvalue near term over long term rewards . This effect seems to be even stronger in more ambitious people.

Understandably, YouScience strives to make the experience and the resulting “strengths profile” as positive as possible. The post-assessment report doesn’t harp on what kids are not good at and also doesn’t tell anybody that the best fit for them is an unskilled, low-wage job. The 500 careers in its database all require at least some post-high... See more

Imagine being a product of this regimen, one of the kids who thrived in it, the sort who winds up at elite schools. All your life you have been pleasing your elders, performing and enjoying the hundreds of enrichment tasks that dominated your early years. You are a mentor magnet. You spent your formative years excelling in school, sports, and... See more

A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego... See more

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Feral Type – its niche is narrative and society. Narrative becomes reality. This gives rise to 2 failure conditions: 1) delusion (which is an identification with an ideology that takes the story as actually being reality) and 2) deception (the perception of society being first and foremost a hierarchy/conflict between domesticated people).