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Ep9 "What does eating that cookie have to do with the hero of the Trojan war?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Power of the Now

A temptation that is right in front of us tends to have more power than something that is in the distant future. As a result, it's very easy to get seduced by short term reward. In this sense, housing bubble bursts can be understood as a neural phenomenon. What happens on the large scale of society also happens at the scale of the individual.

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