Rational Rational thinking is when we use common-sense and decide if something is feasible and realistic. Ironically, rational thinking is often prompted by the Chimp, which activates the Human. The Chimp does this by an intuitive prompt; a bell ringing in your head saying that something just doesn’t sound true. However, the Human must remain in charge and search for evidence to back up the Chimp’s prompt. If we don’t do this and allow our Chimp to take over, common-sense disappears and at some point in the future the Chimp’s prompt may work against us. We will then look back and say, ‘What
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