Summary: <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">On this episode of "The Science of Success", we explore one of the fundamental underpinnings of psychology: the brain itself. </p><br> <p> </p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your brain is a roughly million-year-old piece of hardware, designed to operate in the world of hunting and gathering, where dangerous animals and competing humans may lurk behind the nearest bush.</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </p><br> <p> </p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">While our society has changed massively in the last 10,000 years (or even the last 500 years), our brains have not had time to catch up.</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </p><br> <p> </p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As a result, you and I are equipped with a tool that is riddled with shortcuts and processing errors, which can manifest themselves in mistakes, calamities, and all around terrible decisions.</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </p><br> <p> </p><br> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: small;">To find out how you can get around these and make life a little easier, listen to this week's episode "The Biological Limits of the Human Mind".</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </p><br> <p> </p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </p><br> <p> Also c<span style="font-size: 10pt;">ontinue the conversation by following Matt on Twitter </span><a style="font-size: 10pt;" href="https://twitter.com/MattBodnar">(@MattBodnar</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">) or visiting his website </span><a style="font-size: 10pt;" href="http://www.mattbodnar.com/">MattBodnar.com</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </p><br> <p> </p>
