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Welcome back Quick Brains. I'm your host and your brain coach Jim Quick. Today we'll learn how to

accelerate your learning and your life through actively engaging in exploration, seeking out

challenges and uncertainty.

In addition to understanding what exploring is and what drives us to explorers as human,

we also will be discussing how uncertainty drives us forward, and we'll take a look at the

processes happening in our nervous system, in our brain, when we challenge ourselves in new ways.

And the role predictive processing has in our life. Our guest today, and I'm a fan of his work,

is Alex Hutchinson, the New York Times best-selling author of this book. I just pulled off,

if you're watching the extended version on YouTube indoor. This was one of my

favorite reads, and I think it was in 2018. He's a longtime columnist of Outside a magazine and a

national magazine award-winning journalists. He's a long-distance runner for the Canadian national team,

a former long-distance runner, and has a very impressive academic background,

holding a master's in journalism, a PhD in physics. His latest book is the topic of discussion today.

It's called The Explorers Gene, and it explores the science behind why we're wired to seek new

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