stephen and ang s talk about how habits and addictions have overlapped, but also how they're not exactly the same thing. "Every addiction does hyja habit machinery, but not every habit is an addiction," says stephen. Garry becker loved economics, but he didn't resemble an economist at all. For many he was more like a psychologist. It's just an existence proof that the behaviors of attics can actually often be planful and goal directed.
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