Thriving in the Face of Contradiction

在矛盾面前蓬勃发展

Hidden Brain

社会科学

2022-10-18

53 分钟
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We all face tough decisions in life, whether we're juggling the demands of work and family or deciding whether to take a new job. These situations often feel like either/or choices. But psychologist Wendy Smith says this binary way of confronting dilemmas contains a trap. She offers a different way to think about difficult choices, one that opens up unexpected possibilities.
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  • This is hidden brain.

  • I'm Shankar Vedanta.

  • Do you want to know what it is?

  • The Matrix is everywhere.

  • It is all around us.

  • In the hit 1999 Sci-Fi film the Matrix the character Morpheus, played by Lawrence Fishburne, tells Keanu Reeves character Neo about the hidden forces that control the world.

  • It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

  • What truth?

  • That you are a slave.

  • Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch.

  • A prison for your mind.

  • Morpheus offers to let Neo see the truth for himself.

  • But to do so, he first needs to make a choice.

  • Morpheus shows Neo his closed fists.

  • You have to see it for yourself.

  • He opens his palms one by one.

  • In his left hand is a blue pill.

  • In his right, a red pill.

  • He asks Neo to choose.

  • This is your last chance.