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Coding rewires our brains. Here are five things that may be strange for others, but are outcomes of how coding changes the way we think. Hereās 5 unusual results of coding on our lives
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1. You Canāt Decide If You Want A Dog Or A Cat
In coding you usually gather all the data and then you do things based on simple conditions. If itās impossible to use logic you have to gather more data.
Translating this approach to choosing a dog over a cat isnāt working. A lot of decisions in life is about personal preference, and randomness.
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But coding makes you instead gather more and more data until you eventually canāt decide anyways.
On the bright side, logic can help in life. If you donāt go to deep with data gathering it can unlock your decision making freeze.