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Attention is all we have
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A few days ago I was reading a fascinating essay by David Bessis that made me think deeply about something we all take for granted: intelligence. Bessis, a mathematician and author of Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity, presents a thesis that challenges many of our deeply held beliefs about the origin of cognitive differences between people.
What’s most interesting about his approach is not so much the conclusion -which I’ll get to- but the path he traces to get there, a path that mixes mathematics, neuroscience, and a good dose of personal experience.