Chapter 3This Is Your Brain
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Your brain is the most powerful computer in existence. But it’s not at all like the computers we’re familiar with, and in fact it has some really odd peculiarities that can either trip you up or propel you to greatness. So in this chapter, we’re going to take a quick look at how your brain works.
We’ll see where intuition comes from, begin to look at harnessing it better to become more expert, and learn why a lot of things that perhaps you think “don’t matter” turn out to be absolutely critical to your success.
Since we’re pretty familiar with computers, it seems useful to talk about ...
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