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Paul Jasper

Paul Jasper, Ph.D., is a Boston-based woodworker behind Copper Pig Fine Woodworking and co-host of the Woodworking is BULLSHIT! podcast.

Jul 13, 2026

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The sign is
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facial, yes, but that is a proxy for overall health.
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So the facial averageness, mathematically average faces being the most attractive, points to a deep genetic preference for immune diversity over individual faces.
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inbred distinctiveness.
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That's the third one.
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The fourth one is rectilinear versus curvilinear.
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This is something we've talked about a lot.

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Okay, I was picturing like a
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Sure.
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Uh, but Keith's point, let's come back to Keith's point, which is can people tolerate boredom anymore? And the psychology and the, the, the central nervous system research says that when you become bored, you, a part of your brain called the d- default mode network takes over, okay? So when you're not stimulated and processing, the default mode network kicks in.
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And what is the default mode network? That is the part of your brain that's just always on in the background, processing problems, thinking about anxieties, working through shit in the background.
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You know, occasionally you'll get a solution, and it'll just kind of come to you in a moment of, like, "Where, where did that come from?" Like a solution to a problem you didn't even know you were still mulling over.

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Mm.
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He doesn't need external things pushing on him.
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He's got enough inside him to...
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So the s- that's, I, that second idea of internal versus external motivation factors.

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