David Eagleman

I think another thing is that we'll be experiencing completely new senses.

It'll just be trivial for everybody to experience, you know, whatever infrared and stock market data and what's going on on social media.

You know, these things will just be, you know, like, like getting eyeglasses for a kid.

We'll have all that.

So I think we have more in common with our,

ancestors of 5,000 years ago than we have in common with our descendants of 100 years from now.

Seek novelty.

So the key is doing things that you're not already good at because that's how you exercise the brain and build a stronger brain is by doing things you have not done before.

It's all about other people.

The brain has an extraordinary amount of its circuitry devoted to other people and making models of them and understanding them.

And I think one of the key things in life, especially now during our polarized era, is to really try standing in the shoes of other people, especially people that you're disagreeing with, and try to understand the world from their point of view.

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This is David Eagleman from the Inner Cosmos podcast.

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