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New Research Reveals Surprising Insights About How We Plan and Make Decisions

When faced with important decisions, how much time should we spend planning? When is it worth taking extra time to think through scenarios, and when should we trust our instincts? A new study published in Nature Neuroscience has revealed fascinating insights about how our brains approach planning and decision-making that could change how you think about these questions.

As the study notes, "Because thinking does not involve the acquisition of new information or interactions with the environment, its ubiquity for human decision-making is perhaps surprising. However, thinking allows us to perform more computations with limited information, which can improve performance on downstream tasks." In other words, even though thinking doesn't give us new information, it helps us process what we already know in ways that lead to better outcomes.

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