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How to Change Your Life & Business: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be | Katy Milkman

Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliott

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Is There a Magic Cure for Self-Control?

As a grad student I couldn't motivate myself to get to the gym at the end of a long day. So I realized oh like maybe I could solve these problems logically what if I only let myself read the next piece pages of my page journal while I'm exercising and that just was like this magic cure for me suddenly I would find myself craving trips to the gym, she says. "I didn't even feel guilty reading the novel suddenly because I was doing it toget to the gym then I get home and I had that energy boost from the exercise"

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