The smartest man in the world mathematically proved airplanes were impossible. One year later, the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. What did two bicycle mechanics see that a genius with perfect data and flawless logic couldn't? And why did the U.S. Army discover that teaching their elite soldiers to think more like computers was actually making them worse at their jobs?

Here's the thing nobody tells you: every time you open an app, fill out a form, or stare at a menu trying to translate "I want something Italian that's healthy" into the categories a machine demands, you're training yourself to think like a computer. And computers, it turns out, are probability machines that can only see what's already happened. Your brain is a possibility machine that can imagine what's never existed. You just forgot how to use it. This episode will remind you—and it might change how you make every decision from here on out.

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Dumbify celebrates ideas so weird, wrong, or wildly impractical… they just might be brilliant. Hosted by David Carson, a serial entrepreneur behind multiple hundred-million-dollar companies and the go-to secret weapon for companies looking to unlock new markets through unconventional thinking. Dumbify dives into the messy, counter-intuitive side of creativity — the “dumb” ideas that built empires, broke rules, and ended up changing everything.