Your Brain Is Not a Hard Drive

from Welcome to Your Life · host John Alan Turner

Working memory holds roughly four things at a time. When you exceed that, careful thinking goes offline and the fast pattern-matching brain takes over -- which is fine for driving, less fine for decisions that matter.

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