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#338 - Robert Wright - Psychology, Aliens & Averting The Apocalypse

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Motivation

It's the same argument that I give to girls who are worried that lifting weights in the gym is going to make them too muscly. You're not just going to wake up one day and your default mode networks just completely shut off or you've got 23 inch arms. And there's so much work to be done to get to that point that it's not as if it's going to come out of no way. Sometimes, you start seeming to get diminishing returns and there are different things you can try, different techniques.

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