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Today you learn about how your brain can trick you into changing your mind, how to set goals you can achieve to make your life

better and what to do if you're on a diet and you start to slip up.

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It's surprisingly easy to convince people that they made a

different decision than the one they made in reality. This is a thing called

Choice Blindness and there's some recent research of the Choice Blindness Lab at Lund University that might blow your mind.

So like, let's hear at a restaurant and you can't decide if you want smoked salmon or prime rib.

You talk to the waiter and you order the smoked salmon.

Then 15 minutes later he brings you the prime rib. And you think to yourself,

wow this is great, you're so happy to get that prime rib you ordered. Obviously this is great. You're so happy to get that prime rib you ordered. Obviously this is pretty

messed up since you ordered the salmon, not the prime rib. But this kind of mind game is a lot

more possible than you might think.

In a recent study, participants were shown two different faces and asked to pick the most attractive

one.

Then researchers showed them their choices, but sometimes they performed a sleight of hand card trick and they switched out the choices the participant had actually made for the choice they had rejected. You might think that would be an easy thing to notice, but participants commented on the switch less than a third of the time.

As the study progressed, the rejected choice impacted later choices.

Participants were shown some of the same faces again and asked to compare with other choices. Participants were shown some of the same faces again and as to compare with other choices.

Those who had experienced a card trick actually chose the face that had been swapped out more

often than not.

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