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Happiness Expert Returns: Retrain Your Brain For Maximum Happiness: Mo Gawdat

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

CHAPTER

How to Distinguish Conditioning From Truth in Your Own Thoughts

i'm essentially this puppet to my conditioning, with all these pieces of string hanging off my limbs. Self awareness is the process of gradually cutting one of these strings at a time and taking back more control of why i'm doing what i do in my behaviour. Every single instance of anything that you do literally re wires the hardware itself. If you tell your brain to wire for solving complex mathematical equations, it may take a little ger, but it will become very good at them. Gamers know that certain problems can be solved by tapping their finger on the table much faster than they would otherwise have been able to if they had not done so. When we work out our building muscles in our arms

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