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Gaurav Ahuja interviews me

I very much enjoyed this exchange, print only, here is the link. Excerpt: Gaurav: Going back to Iceland for a moment. I’ve never truly appreciated how old that parliament is. A thousand years is extraordinary. What is it about Iceland that has allowed that kind of continuity? Tyler: Iceland was taken over by Denmark for […] The post Gaurav Ahuja interviews me appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesColin McGinn’s “My Honest Views”The mainstream viewLiberal AI

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Essentials: How to Set & Achieve Goals

In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain how to use science-based tools to better set and achieve goals. I discuss the neuroscience of goal pursuit and how dopamine and visual attention shape motivation and effort. I explain whether visualizing success or failure better supports goal pursuit, how to choose goals at the right level of difficulty and evaluate progress. I also share a short “space-time bridging” protocol that helps train long-range, goal-directed behavior. These tools ...

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Britain’s ‘Turkish Barber’ Phenomenon

Most visitors to Britain will probably head straight for Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, or Shakespeare’s Stratford. But should you wander off the tourist trail, you’ll soon notice a curious abundance of Turkish barbershops. It might seem strange enough that these hairdressers are literally everywhere. Stranger still is that there’s rarely anyone in any […] The post Britain’s ‘Turkish Barber’ Phenomenon appeared first on The American Conservative

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