Hello, this is Monica Reinagle.

Thanks for tuning in to the Nutrition Diva Podcast.

Our theme this whole month is Healthy Habits. And and today I'm talking with behavioral

economist and author Dan Arielli. You've probably heard his name he's written

several books including his 2008 bestseller, Predict the hidden forces that shape our decisions

and his much more recent title dollars and cents how we miss think money and how to spend smarter. So we've got plenty of fodder right there for your New Year's

resolutions.

Dan Arieli teaches now at Duke University and he's also the founder of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

I'll say that again, Center for Advanced Hindsight. I love the name of that center and that same sense of humor

makes his books as fun to read as they are insightful and helpful. So welcome to the

show Dan. Lovely to be here.

So you've spent your career trying to understand

and trying to explain to the rest of us

why we insist on making choices that are clearly

not in our best interests. Things like buying lottery tickets or selling our stocks when they lose value.

And of course, eating things that we know are going to keep us from looking and feeling the way we want to.

And in fact, your latest project has to do with helping people lose weight and get healthier.

And to help people do this, you recently introduced a bathroom scale called

Shepa. And the interesting thing about this scale is that it doesn't tell you what you weigh.

You want to explain kind of what you were thinking here?

Yes, so first of all, let me add to the list of things that we do in all kind of

irrational, predictable ways, is that I in my sins own the Bitcoin. One whole

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