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🗓️ 1 March 2018
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0:00.0 | Hello? |
0:04.0 | Hello. |
0:06.0 | Hello. |
0:07.0 | Hi Charles. |
0:08.0 | Sorry about that. |
0:10.0 | No. |
0:11.0 | No. |
0:12.0 | No worry. How are you doing today? I really need some help in dealing with this |
0:18.2 | romantic situation. A few years ago I wrote a book named The Power of Habit. |
0:23.0 | And since then, I've gotten phone calls and emails from lots of people. |
0:27.0 | I am hoping you can help me solve this question. |
0:32.0 | People who have asked me to help them with their problems. |
0:34.4 | Oh, like I don't know if I really want to do this. |
0:37.0 | What I want is some advice of how to take on this conversation with my friend. |
0:42.8 | I can't figure that problem out. |
0:44.6 | But the thing is, I'm not a therapist. |
0:49.1 | I'm a reporter, and I work with other reporters. And so we picked some of those problems. |
0:55.0 | And for each one, we went out and we found a story. |
0:58.0 | Can we talk to you for, is that, for a couple minutes? |
1:00.0 | Do you mind? |
1:01.0 | A story that might fix the problem. He said the mind is like a pot of beans, Steve. It's almost like aha, yes. You know if you wanted your troops committed you burn the bridge behind them so they know that they can't retreat. |
1:15.3 | And then we did an experiment to see if that story helped. |
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