Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

2185.772 - 2204.365 Steve Levitt

You were more ambitious than me. I would just ask my mother. And I have since learned that every single thing my mother taught me was completely wrong. But I still believe them. Because of this part of the brain that locks in things that you learn long ago, I still have to fight every day against the falsehoods my mother taught me. I wish I had told her to take me to the library.