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Drunk How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Edward Slingerland

An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, no...

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He cited the book as explaining how shutting off the prefrontal cortex can boost creativity.

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This is also what I learned from Edward Slingeland, the guy that wrote Drunk. He's saying that switching off your PFC, your prefrontal cortex is actually one of the best things that you can do for cre...

— Episode: #589 - 14 Lessons from 5 Years Of Modern...

Episode: #589 - 14 Lessons from 5 Years Of Modern Wisdom

He cited the book as explaining how shutting off the prefrontal cortex can boost creativity.

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This is also what I learned from Edward Slingeland, the guy that wrote Drunk. He's saying that switching off your PFC, your prefrontal cortex is actually one of the best things that you can do for creativity because as soon as you try to focus really, really hard, there are certain areas of the brain that are great for creativity that get shut off.

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