Why does your brain do this? Just as with habits, it wants to save energy . The law of least effort states that your brain uses the minimum amount of energy for each task it can get away with.
So when it seems system 1 can handle things, it won’t activate system 2. In this case, though, it leads you to not use all of your IQ points, even though you’d actually need to, so our brain limits our intelligence by being lazy.
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