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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Plato

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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How to Control Your Appetite, Right?

In many ways, there's nothing you can do about the fact that you will feel tempted. The easiest way to kind of get yourself to like, control your appetite is to get rid of the thing that you don't want to be tempted by. Put your phone in a zip lock bag so you can't touch it, turn off the wy fire, on your internet, don't have chocolate in the house. All of those are exactly the strategies that the ancient greeks were using. And what's amazing is that iis like thousands of years ago, but basically, plato is foreshadowing everything that we know bout the modern science of habit formation....

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