The Ultimate Brain Hack | Andrew Bustamante 

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Love your stuff, but you take too long to get to the point. You don't need to sell me with a dozen examples, I'm here because I trust you. For example, you say "everyone arounfyou will remember the first and last thing you say" but youeleaborate- your kids, your spouse, your customers, etc. You're losing me with all the extra descriptors. Quick and to the point works. I want to use your hacks as a break in homeschool lessons, but I'd need to clip and shorten this dramatically.

Love your stuff extremely informative and brings a whole perspective I never thought of thank yiu

They order the same thing because they know they liked it and don't want to risk an entire meal on something they don't know if they will like. Also, they disproportionately pick the last item they've had because they liked it. If they didn't like the last item they had there, they would not return at all. They wouldn't dislike the last thing they are at a restaurant and then go back and try a new item. They would lose confidence in the restaurant entirely.

when someone tends to pick the first item on the menu that is a primacy effect, not a recency effect. They are looking for something that passes a subjective standard of acceptibility - on a menu full of strange items the first item may simply be recognised and picked to avoid the work and delay of deciphering all the unknowns. I once had a menu at a Greek restaurant on Cyprus where a middle item option offered the 'God fish' , and was a little alarming but also intriguing - but it turned out to be a misprint for 'cod'.

My question here would be what defines an instance of information gathering or intake? Say I have a 40 minute Ted Talk. If I break it into eight 5-minute segments how much time should pass between segments so that the Primacy and Recency effects are reset so that the audience remembers the maximum amount of information?

interesting ... but my wife and I virtually never select first nor last item 🤔 I wonder what insight that offers 🤔

I remembered the examples in the following order Ted talks, girls, movies, I totally forgot the menu at the beginning. Maybe I’m just a weirdo. I’m a curious enough weirdo to try it out though.

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Just a completely normal family vacation to Portugal in the middle of a new wave of the plague. I am sure it has nothing to do with the Communists running for office in the Portugal elections. Nice to see some cool old castles with the fam and totally not forcing or manipulating the head of Portuguese Communist Party, Jerónimo de Sousa, from running for office! Kidding, love your content! It is one of the few channels I learn cool skills from that I put into practice as an History Teacher. It is definitely interesting or maybe I am using my spy skills at the moment to kayfabe you! ;)

Phenomenal content

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I skipped the middle of this video

You leave out so many factors in this. The reason why people pick the first thing they've ever done or experienced disproportionately so, is because anytime you experience something for the first time and you enjoy it it becomes an extra special memory for you. You romanticize the first time for everything. And when somebody picks the last time it's because they remember it last simply because it's easier to remember things that recently happened. It's also more reliable to do the things you've recently done. Do you understand now how many things you leave out in this equation. And I just brought up a couple there are many many many more that play into these things. You've dumb this down to a point where it's absurd. And you've left out so many aspects of this that it makes your entire thesis garbage and useless of all meaning and practice.

Andrew leaves out so many things when it comes to his examples. Mthere are so many other factors involved in the things he says here but addresses none of them and deduces it down to his anecdote.

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Andrew claimed his wife and child picked the last or first items but he didn't but then goes on to state it's a natural thing. So does that mean Andrew is the only person who doesn't operate in a natural manner? This is a load of nonsense.

This is silly. It's so flawed.

Andrew, your Ted talk example is utter nonsense as something to prove the point of this episodes subject. The reason You remember the FIRST and LAST things of a TED talk is because that's the SUBJECT OF THE TED TALK!! Any person who does a TED talk is typically skilled at speaking and presenting their ideas. And any person who knows how to present their ideas knows that, just like when you write a paper or essay on a subject, you begin with the topic that you're about to talk about and you end with the topic by summarizing it as your last part of your essay or paper. The same is true for Ted talks because at the end of the day TED talks are merely just vocal essays or thesis. I think you convince a lot of people because they're not smart enough to dive deeper into the things you're saying and just accept what you're saying on face value without even thinking about it. The Ted talk example is nonsense and so is the example of picking food from a restaurant and going back to a restaurant to order the last thing you ate from there. The reason why you go back to a restaurant and order the last thing you ate from there is because you know you like it and don't want to risk your entire meal on picking something you don't know if you like and ruining the experience entirely. Also, most people go to restaurants that cook or offer the thing they are interested in eating. They don't go to a restaurant based on the last thing they ate there. That's nonsense. And only happens with people who don't want to try new things or go there specifically to eat the thing they ate last because that's what they're craving. It's odd that you also use your wife and your child as an example and back it up by saying what they're doing is natural. Natural meaning they're not thinking about it and it's just instinctual. What's weird about this is that you don't say that you do the same thing which implies that you don't. So that also implies that you do not act naturally and somehow withhold your natural instincts because you're what? So much smarter than everybody else? Or because you're some trained Einstein because you worked at CIA? I like some of your content but man a lot of it you are just completely full of shit dude. But the thing is, I have no doubt you believe your own bullshit. Because like a good CIA officer, you've been trained well to believe all of the bullshit they put in your head. You don't even question anything they put in your head. You literally believe everything you learned in the CIA as if everything the CIA teaches their intelligence officers is fact and is objectively true and not something they simply want their CIA officers to believe because it serves the CIA. Let's be real here, the CIA doesn't give a damn about the people who are serving the CIA. The CIA cares about the mission and only the mission. They will sacrifice anybody for the success of the mission. So they will plant things in your head even despite you being on the home team in order for the mission to succeed. And by mission I mean the specific mission you're running or the mission of the CIA. I think you've completely bought everything the CIA has ever taught you hook line and sinker and think there is no way anything the CIA has ever taught you could ever be wrong. This episode with primacy and recency is 90% garbage. No doubt it's rooted in some natural aspects, but you take it and run with it to a level of absurdity.