Most of our discussed reactions are automatic and cross cultural, and have nothing to do with learning anything. And you can even look at thi from an evolutionary perspective, from time frame. So when we eat something that's poisonous, we spit it out basically as soon as it's in our mouth. But if you eat something that is not poisonous, it takes time for that, you know, the cloric value to register. Said, willi let me eat this chocolate? Maybe i like as compared if it's poisonous? Ri what was that getin?
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses bad habits and how to change them.
He is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love -- Why We Get Hooked and how We Can Break Bad Habits -- and his TED Talk on how to change a bad habit has more than 12 million views.
But...we talk about so many other things in this episode. It's a free association smorgasbord of brain stuff that will rattle your head.
::: Show Notes at YouAreNotSoSmart.com :::
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