# Dinesh Raju - Don't Get Addicted to Painkillers (Highlights)  ## Highlights - Not knowing what's going on can be exhausting. Your mind hates the [mental effort](https://dinesh.eth.link/notes/thinking-fast-and-slow/#the-most-important) of keeping several competing possibilities open and wants the tiredness and cognitive load to go away. When you can borrow an explanation that makes everything click, the exhaustion goes away and you get to relax again. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3h14zbpn7ym39efankw4cc6)) ^1058489844 - If you want to get better, what you really need is a useful explanation: one that accounts for the messy context-specific details and doesn't avoid talking about the uncontrollable bits that can make the plan fail. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3h16fxaexhgy262x6davmg3)) ^1058489878 - But borrowing an explanation is just the first step in the journey of making it useful. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3h18kbnzepxse7b4j1p0tq8)) ^1058490321 - In this way, a good painkiller is the raw material you can use to build a version of the model that works for you. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3h19003acrbesp1sv0w6wcq)) ^1058490325