Hey, how are you doing? Hi, hi. I had a question. I'm working on this thing, a

podcast that we're making. Hi, I'm Charles Dewig, an investigative reporter, and I've got a new assignment.

Your problems.

I think the sheer scale of it is so overwhelming.

A few years ago, I wrote a book called The Power of Habit. And afterwards people

started reaching out to me and asking for help. So I'm trying to make this decision

about whether to move back to the United States. Whether to donate a kidney to my mom.

Managing employees is not something that I'm good at.

How you trick your brain into a different way of thinking

when things are going wrong.

But the thing is, I'm not a therapist or a life coach or anything like that.

I'm just a journalist.

So each week I talk to a listener who's got a problem, a question about how to fix something, and then I go digging.

I read up on the latest research, I talk to people with similar issues, and I track down experts to get their advice.

I think it's important to recognize that every decision that we make is a bet.

Just by acknowledging the fact that a joke bombed, you can get laughs.

If you ran into a burning building and saved your mother, I don't think there's

anyone who would say, what were you thinking? So day one, one minute, cold shower.

And this is what I teach people to control pain.

Cold shower a day keeps the doctor away.

Thank you very much. I think this is actually really clear my head because at least I'm not having a cold shower because I hate cold showers.

And that's my favorite part of this whole thing.

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