Thriving in the Face of Contradiction

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We all face tough decisions in life, whether we're juggling the demands of work and family or deciding whether to take a new job. These situations often feel like either/or choices. But psychologist Wendy Smith says this binary way of confronting dilemmas contains a trap. She offers a different way to think about difficult choices, one that opens up unexpected possibilities.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:02.4	Do you want to know what it is?
0:09.6	The Matrix is everywhere.
0:11.6	It is all around us.
0:13.8	In the hit 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix, the character Morpheus, played by Lawrence Fishburn,
0:20.5	tells Keanu Reeves' character Neo about the hidden forces that control the world.
0:26.6	It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
0:32.5	What truth?
0:35.2	That you are a slave, Neo.
0:38.2	Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell
0:43.0	or taste or touch.
0:45.6	A prison for your mind.
0:48.6	Morpheus offers to let Neo see the truth for himself.
0:52.6	But to do so, he first needs to make a choice.
0:56.1	Morpheus shows Neo his closed fists.
0:59.0	You have to see it for yourself.
1:01.7	He opens his palms one by one.
1:04.8	In his left hand is a blue pill.
1:07.1	In his right, a red pill.
1:09.6	He asks Neo to choose.
1:12.0	This is your last chance.
1:14.6	After this there is no turning back.
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