Ap Dijksterhuis
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549 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Ap Dijksterhuis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, it's it's not it's not some random process whereby people on the street will also get these uh these huge ideas.
And the second uh reason is that motivation is incredibly important.
You have to really want it for it to happen.
Inspiration favors the people who really want to solve something or make something or create something.
And the stronger the goal is, the more brain capacity you're actually using for pursuing that goal.
That's also the reason why some of the more extreme
uh geniuses in in our past were highly monomaniac.
You know, the the Newton died when he was eighty-four years old, but he died a virgin.
He never had he never made room in his life for some for something like love.
Now I wouldn't recommend that, but that that's what he did.
And uh there are a lot of examples of people who achieved
Way more than let's say normal people, but at the same time were very monomaniac, simply because their their brains were hijacked by by their incredibly big strong goal.
Yeah, that that turns out to be true.
We we uh we we uh there's various ways to test it.
Yeah.
Um people who who really know what they want uh have a stronger intuition and also more faith in their own intuition.
It's not so strange, uh, if you think about it, you know, what can your intuition do for you if you don't know what you want to do?
Like you you you're walking in a strange city, your intuition can't tell you to go left or right if you if you don't even know.
And and this is uh this is maybe a simple um
example, but this is this is true in life in general.
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