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Your Modern Lifestyle Is Nice, But It Might Be Killing You with Mark Manson

The Science of Success

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Self Control Is an Illusion

Most of our actions are impulsive, selfish, not nearly as thought through as we would like to believe they are. Our thinking brain spends most of its time coming up with reasons that justify what we just did. We're never going to change that. The best we can do is mply work our thinking brain and get it on the same pageo create an illusion of self control.

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