Moshe Bar
Israeli neuroscientistWikipedia
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Sep 23, 2026
56: Michael Cater - Comfortable Being Uncomfortable - Building TEDxInnovation Drive
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40:10Michael CarterGUEST
The talk that I found, now I'm just kind of relating back to your story, is he talked about the importance of experts.
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40:21Michael CarterGUEST
Moshe Bar has a speech of why smart people stop having original ideas and part of it is they become experts early on and now they're an expert and they immediately tend to commit.
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40:31Michael CarterGUEST
And I have the ability, and I say ability, it's a disability, of staying open far longer.
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40:38Michael CarterGUEST
You could call it indecisive, but for the most part, it's something that keeps your mind open like a child would and not commit too early.
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51:53Michael CarterGUEST
He wrote a book, A More Beautiful Question, and he's just talking about the power of questions to solve problems and get more creative questions.
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52:01Michael CarterGUEST
and gives a lot of examples about that.
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52:04Michael CarterGUEST
Moshe Bar is a neuroscience professor at Bar-Ilan University and Mass General Hospital.
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52:10Michael CarterGUEST
He's an author of the book Mind Wandering, Why Smart People Stop Original Ideas, and we talked a little bit about that, but that's gonna be, I think, I'll just say it will hit home for all those smart people in the room.