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The worst mistakes people make with diet and exercise (with Menno Henselmans)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Paradox of Self-Control

The most important part of what our brain does is often to just make us feel good. We have two IDs in our heads or actions and our IDs are not congruent with each other. When system one and system two want something different, that creates cognitive dissonance. The human brain deviates from the level of computers and perfectly rational machines where we are very flexible in how we deal with it.

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