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#241 BITESIZE | How to Control Your Attention and Choose the Life You Want to Live | Nir Eyal
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
What's the Driver of All Human Behavior?
distraction is not a new problem, plato talked about it 25 hundred years ago. He called it a cracia, this tendency that we all have to do things against our better interests. Most people will tell you that motivation is about some version of carrots and sticks. Buit turns out that from a neurological perspective, it's not exactly right. All behavior is spurred by one thing, and that is the desire to escape discomfort.
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