Thinking and learning with our bodies takes advantage of humans’ fundamentally egocentric mindset. We’ve evolved to understand events and ideas in terms of how they relate to us, not from some neutral or impartial perspective. Research has found that the act of self-reference—connecting new knowledge to our own identity or experience—functions as a kind of “integrative glue,” imparting a stickiness that the same information lacks when it is encountered as separate and unrelated to the self. Adopting a first-person perspective doesn’t mean we become limited by it; indeed, using the movements of
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