To live an uncommon life one needs to learn uncommon discipline. This is Mark Devine with the Unbeatable Mind podcast. Welcome back.

Appreciate you joining me today. Today I've got a solo cast to continue my journey of reading from the newly completely revise and updated pandemic edition of Unbeatable Mind which I'm calling Unbeatable, it's the Unbeatable Edition.

And I'm up to chapter two, title of chapter two is Understanding the brain and mind. Here we go.

Quote education, the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain.

Whether you lead a multinational corporation

or a classroom of unruly kids,

you'll be more successful by not trusting your brain and learning to use your mind more

expansively. There are tools to train both, fortunately, which will streamline

and improve your decision making.

This chapter focuses on how the brain and the mind work

and introduces the core practices that help to develop the brain and the mind. The goal is to be able to access what we call whole mind thinking and

utilize decision models to speed up and improve decision making to break patterns of one

dimensional bias thinking and avoid

things like group-think procrastination and analysis paralysis. Frankly it's

fairly easy to be clever but it takes a lot of work to get to be wise.

I've been to party to a plethora of clever and complicated plans in the past that outright failed or never got executed. The wise

decisions are the simplest with built-in contingencies for inevitable fail

points. The Brain Zoo. I wish I had a dollar for every time that I put my foot into my mouth

by jumping to a conclusion, reacting with an unseen cognitive bias bias or something like that.

I am not alone here, I bet.

Eventually, I just simply stop trusting my high IQ

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