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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how we learn the

same information differently from people we like than from those we don't like,

a drug men already take that could have incredible added benefits,

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Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

Imagine that you're taking a stroll through the grocery store and you come across a mom with the cutest little toddler you have ever seen sitting in the car.

The baby points at you and gurgle something so cute that you can't help but commit the kid to

memory.

Fast forward.

Later that day you're walking down the street and you see that same kid in a stroller.

She recognizes you too and points and does the gurgly thing, but this time there's a man pushing the stroller.

So who's this man?

Okay, wearing a scientist hat, I can't really say who it is with any certainty, but if I'm just

making assumptions, it seems pretty obvious that he's probably the little girl's dad.

So you're making an inference, which is a pretty special kind of thing that makes humans able to make really huge leaps in our learning.

Of course, if we didn't make inferences like that, we'd have to spend all of our time just kind of

relearning everything. Exactly. Learning involves both individual

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