Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Get this episode ad-free when you join TLBC+ today: https://tlbc.co/join In this episode, we look at how the internet makes us think we are smarter than we actually are.  Get excited, because this is Tiny Leaps, Big Changes. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes where I share research-backed strategies you can use, to get more out of your life. My name is Gregg Clunis. The Research: Matthew Fisher, Mariel K. Goddu, and Frank C. Keil published a paper in 2015 titled,  "Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge”. What They Found: The researchers indicated that, “A growing body of theoretical and empirical work suggests that transactive memory systems can be technological as well as social. Though these systems are typically thought to be composed of human minds, our reliance on technology, like the Internet, may form a system bearing many similarities to knowledge dependencies in the social world. The Internet is the largest repository of hum