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Why we choose information over direct experience

Every time I go birding I spend more time looking at my field guide and apps than actually watching birds and I know I'm missing the point entirely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind's hunger for knowledge can devour the very experience it seeks to understand.

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