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    Explore how our decisions are shaped by unconscious biases, emotional drivers, and cognitive shortcuts—and why even brilliant minds fall into predictable traps. Discover frameworks that explain the gap between our rational and emotional decision systems.

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    The world makes much less sense than you think; the coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works, creating an illusion of rational decision-making when there's actually so much more going on beneath the surface.

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