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Why You Need to Stop Ignoring Weird Things!
Before you dismiss things…read this!
Us humans are really weird…
Why? Well of the many ways I could answer that question, today’s reason is that we love to dismiss things we don’t understand.
That new-fangled social media with the weird dances…dismissed
That food dish from some exotic place that we can’t try to pronounce without offending people…dismissed?
Why do we love to dismiss things? Well, there are arguably two reasons for this.
Firstly, humans have a deep fear of the unknown. That was very useful back in the days when a strange berry or a weird noise could result in your untimely death, but now it usually rather useless.
Secondly, and I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but our brain capacity is a lot more limited than we would like to believe. Yes, we do possess the greatest brain ever known and can calculate a ridiculous number of things a second, but that does not take away from the fact that if we are faced with something confusing, we usually dismiss it and move on. This is a good thing because it would be useless to spend your day attempting to understand the intricacies of how to create a tik tok if you should actually be writing your thesis!
