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#159 Dr. Anna Lembke: Between Pleasure and Pain

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is Your Focus Changing Your Ability to Achieve Things?

There is something really biochemically important and magical about the 24 hour cycle our willpower is not you know an inexhaustible resource we wake up in the morning with more willpower than we'll have at the end of the day because we've tired it out. After sleep after a night of sleep we're renewed again so there's something very very powerful about just saying if I can just make it through today without using  I can start again and be reborn again tomorrow. It kind of depends on the person you know every people to have their different using rituals and people use first thing in the morning it sort of depends on their particular disease or substance.

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