"It feels like somehow, ye, i can think my way to adjusting systems that feel completely outside of my control. That's what it feels like. Is is being uncovered there." "I don't believe that i can alter my the chemicals that make me hungry or not," he says. 'The stuff is actually generally happening close to half a second before we've been conscious of it'
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses bad habits and how to change them.
He is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love -- Why We Get Hooked and how We Can Break Bad Habits -- and his TED Talk on how to change a bad habit has more than 12 million views.
But...we talk about so many other things in this episode. It's a free association smorgasbord of brain stuff that will rattle your head.
::: Show Notes at YouAreNotSoSmart.com :::
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