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Jul 2019
36m 22s

The Fox And The Hedgehog

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode
The Greek poet Archilochus wrote that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This week, we'll use the metaphor of the fox and the hedgehog as a way to understand the differences between tacticians and big-picture thinkers. We'll explore the story of a pioneering surgeon whose hedgehog tendencies led him to great triumphs, and a he ... Show More
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