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405: How to Be Happy in Life & Work: Stop Trying So Hard with Edward Slingerland

Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

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How to Overcome Cold and Hot Cognition

Humans have this great ability to flip into cold cognition and exert cognitive control. If you're on a diet, you can stop yourself from eating cake by telling yourself "I don't need fatalities" But in order to tell itself that it has to be activated, the brain needs to shut down part of its system. The dual system model explains why trying not to try is a real paradox.

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