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How To Embrace Rules To Rise Above Destructive Impulses: Former Spy Shane Parrish

A New Way of Being

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Understanding and Managing Our Innate Instincts

This chapter explores how innate mammalian instincts shape human behavior, focusing on the impact of emotions, ego, and social pressures on decision-making. It highlights four key defaults that hinder rational thought and offers strategies to manage these instincts for improved choices.

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