These cool facts of the day are recorded on the road in Austin where I'm here at an anti-aging conference.

This cool fact is about whether you're going to decide to learn something maybe even this cool fact.

It turns out there are three things that help you decide whether you're going to look for information or you're going to unconsciously choose to remain ignorant.

The research comes from University College London where researchers want to find out how people decide what they want to know.

In the research people chose whether to seek or avoid information about their health, their finances or their personal traits based on these three things.

And it turns out you have an information seeking type. You're one of these three types.

You either choose to learn something based on how you think it's going to make you feel and if you're one of those types just understand that learning these cool facts of the day is going to make you feel like a great golden god.

You might be the second type which is how useful is it so you're going to learn useful information at which point cool facts of the day are not just cool.

They're incredibly useful and you really need to know about them.

And the third type you may be is that you learn things that relate to things you think about often at which point if you think about being cool you think about facts or you think about biohacking well most definitely you want to continue listening to the rest of the set.

Most people are one of those three types and you may be more than one but you're probably one of them as your top type.

Take a second. Are you aware of how it's going to make you feel how useful it is or whether it's related stuff you care about.

So think about that what are you.

It turns out that specific tendency remains stable across time so if you're like that when you're young you'll likely be like that when you're old and it's like that across domains so whether you're talking about health or finance or anything else pretty much this is how you learn stuff.

And what does this matter for you because if you learn what makes you want to learn something you can probably play a little trick on yourself and if you for instance are motivated by how things make you feel tell yourself how a piece of information is going to make you feel even if you don't really want to learn that info and then maybe you'll unconsciously want to learn it more.

It's kind of cool to just understand what kind of learner are you.

It is abundantly obvious that certain people have the ability to influence other people at a distance.

I don't like it that this is true. I've just observed way too many things my life to really realistically argue with it without deceiving myself.

In fact, there's great science that shows that this is the way reality works.

What would happen though if you actually built technology to enhance someone's power to enhance their own wellness and their own energy.

Well, this is what people have been using energy medicine for for a very long time whether it's too gone whether it's raky whether it's acupuncture you get the point.

It turns out there is a way to use technology to do this and it's really cutting edge.

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