The Human Superpower That's Making Life Harder

Podcast: Focus on This · Full Focus

Opublikowano: 2026-04-27

We’re wired to read other people's minds, or at least to think we can. And most of the time, we don't even realize we're doing it. In this episode, Joel and Hannah unpack the fascinating neuroscience behind mind reading, why it's both essential and deeply flawed, and what it actually costs us when we let our assumptions run the show. The good news: the solve is simpler than you think. Key Takeaways Mirror Neurons Are Almost Magic. In the 1990s, scientists discovered neurons that fire both when we perform an action and when we wa...