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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like, their brains should not function, and yet they have average IQ.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And we don't really have, as far as I know, a good explanatory framework for allowing that to be possible.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
So I don't know.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I mean, this is part of the reason why my position is always,
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
kind of impossible until proven otherwise, but I'm open-minded about it.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And that's why I've poured so, I mean, millions of dollars into science, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Because I'm like, I want to better understand this.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I recognize, as Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, like, it is important not to fool yourself, and you're the most, you're the easiest person to fool.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like, when you want something to be true, even if it's 1%, like, experimenter bias and everything, it's a real thing.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
You'll convince yourself that it's, yeah.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Yeah, you can just, or just look for evidence that something is real.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Which is why I do value the scientific method and, you know, and...
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Have you seen Karl Popper and all falsification, all that stuff is so, so critical for us to have arrived where we are, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like, Western medicine is the greatest healing system that has ever been devised.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Period, full stop.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
But is it the full picture?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
No.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
50%, you know, any MD, I think this is an ongoing joke, but it's kind of like 50% of what we know is wrong, we just don't know which 50%.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like, that's like an accepted sort of joke within medicine and science.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Yeah, I did.