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focused attention, 52–54, 53, 54, 57, 78, 254, 255
focused mode of thinking, 11–12, 12
attentional octopus, 14–15, 16, 52, 53, 53, 57
brick wall metaphor, 38, 38, 39, 43, 85, 254
chunk library and, 117
coins and triangle exercise, 23, 23
flashlight metaphor, 18–19, 26
highly attentive state network, 11
left hemisphere of brain and, 20, 226, 228, 233
overconfidence and, 20, 226, 228, 233
pinball metaphor, 13, 13–14, 15, 15
prefrontal cortex, 12, 12, 14–15, 187
procrastination and, 24
sentence errors exercise, 33
sequential problem solving, 67, 67
triangles and squares exercise, 21, 21
willpower and, 34
See also diffuse mode of thinking; toggling between thinking modes
Foer, Joshua, 155–57, 156, 163
fooling yourself, ease of, 148, 229, 234
Fortenberry, Norman, 92, 92
43 Things, 139
Freedom, 138
“frogs,” eating first, 131, 140, 153, 258
frustration, diffuse mode of thinking, 39
furosemide memory trick, 181

Gabora, Liane, 32
Galois, Évariste, 224
Gamache, Robert R., 72
Gashaj, Michael, 137
Gates, Bill, 66, 216
Gazzaniga, Michael, 228
generation (recalling) effect, chunking, 115
genetic transposition (“jumping genes”), 206
genius envy, 185–89, 190
GI Bill, 5
goals, setting, 136, 137, 141, 152
Golden Apple Award, 208
Goldman Sachs, 199
Google, 27, 127, 138
Gordon, Cassandra, 41
Granovetter, Mark, 231
Gray-Grant, Daphne, 131
group work, 120, 130, 231–33, 234, 235, 239, 240, 241, 255, 259
Gruber, Howard, 30

habits. See zombies
hand bones mnemonic, 176