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Jul 2019
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045 – We Are All Getting Dumber!

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Today we discuss some thoughts  from a book called "Чертоги разума. Убей в себе идиота" Андрея Курпатова.

It's a cool book I started to read and just right away I faced lots of interesting ideas and fact in terms of how our thinking works and why we getting dumber. 

What cases destruction of thinking?

Why simplification is not a good idea?

Why we can't focus for a long time?

Let's find out what doctor Kurpatov says...

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