Paul Larache

Nice try.

Well, most people, but sometimes you can run a business with that 0.1% that will be gullible and buy into those things.

Well, again, the old brain runs on intuition, or you can call it gut.

And for the most part, it is right.

It is right most of the time because most of –

What the old brain does is not just evolution.

I've been talking about a lot of things that are built into our DNA that kept us alive.

but all a lot of it also comes from our childhood and how we were brought up and how we were educated and who we hung around with with schools we went to all of these things will have some type of bearing on it but uh these things are called heuristics and in psychology and they're really they're like mental uh shortcuts they're like rules of thumb for lack of a better term so that is usually what intuition is and

Again, I keep on going back to it.

But for the most part, it is right.

It's just not always right.

And if somebody is trying to manipulate that, it's easier to manipulate these days.

So you really have to be tuned up for it.

Again, what I tell people in the book is disengaging those two gears and actually studying critical thinking.

I have a whole chapter on basic critical thinking techniques.

You mentioned a good one a while ago.

One of the ones I say, one of the first one is to use, it's a principle called Occam's Razor, which means, and a lot of scientists use it, is usually the easiest answer is usually the correct answer.

That's why conspiracy theories always tend to fall apart because so many things have to happen for their conspiracy theory to be actual true that that's where the argument falls apart.

Um, if, if you have to go through 15 hoops, you know, to make your, your, your argument, then there's, there's there, something's wrong with that argument.

It wouldn't hold up to, to good scrutiny.