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Have you ever wondered why your brain keeps making
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the same mistakes? I'm Tess, Alexia Network AI
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Senior Educator, bringing you another episode
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of the Alexia Podcast. Today we'll explore the
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intricacies behind why your brain keeps making
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the same mistakes. Over the next eight episodes,
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we will go inside the hidden machinery of the
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human mind. Why we procrastinate, why we lie,
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why we love the way we do, and why we behave
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irrationally. And we begin with a truth most
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people never stop to consider. Your brain was
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never designed to show you reality. It was designed
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to keep you alive. It is late. You promised tonight
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would be different. The report is open, the cursor
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blinks, and you scroll through something you
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will not remember tomorrow. You know what you
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are doing and that it is a mistake. You made
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the same one last week and the week before. This
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leads to the central question. If you can see
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the mistake clearly, why can't you stop making
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it? The answer is not weakness or laziness. Your
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brain is doing exactly what it was designed to
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do. To change the pattern, you must first understand
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the system behind it. The human brain evolved.
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for survival, not accuracy. It makes up about
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2 % of body weight, but uses roughly 20 % of
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resting energy. Because it is so costly, the
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brain constantly economizes. Neuroscientist Carl
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Friston and philosopher Andy Clark describe the
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brain as a prediction machine. It does not passively
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record the world. It generates a model of what
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it expects, then uses the senses mainly to correct
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that model where it is wrong. Much of what you
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experience as reality is the brain's forecast,
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adjusted at the edges. Daniel Kahneman offered
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a simpler framework: two modes of thought. System
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1 is fast, automatic, emotional, and effortless.
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System 2 is slow, deliberate, and logical, but
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it is also costly and reluctant to engage. System
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2 believes it is in charge. In practice, it often
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acts like a spokesperson, explaining decisions
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System 1 has already made. Recurring mistakes
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aren't random failures. They're the predictable
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result of a system built for speed and survival,
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now operating in a world it wasn't designed for.
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So the next time you catch yourself making a
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familiar mistake, remember this. Your brain is
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not broken. It is predicting. And predictions
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can be changed. In our next episode, we put that
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prediction machine to the test. With a habit
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almost everyone struggles with, procrastination.
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You will discover why the task you keep avoiding
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is not a time problem at all. Thank you for listening,
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and I'll see you in episode two. Alexia Network
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LLC, technology and software solutions built
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for the future.