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Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
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Cognitive Dissonance and the Pursuit of Happiness
Cognitive dissonance is a phenomenon where people reduce the dissonance between two competing ideas by saying that one is true even though it is not./nIt explains a lot of peculiar behavior in people's lives, including why smokers continue to smoke even though they know it's bad for their health, and why people vote for politicians they know are bad for the country even though it's uncomfortable.
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