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🗓️ 8 November 2021
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0:00.0 | Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023. |
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0:30.0 | I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. |
0:33.0 | In my long study of happiness, good habits and human nature, one thing I've concluded |
0:38.3 | is a paradox that we are more similar to other people and also more different from other people |
0:44.8 | than we imagine. We often underestimate how common a behavior belief practice or preferences, |
0:51.7 | and we also overestimate how common a behavior belief practice or belief is. |
0:58.7 | Here's an example of how it's easy to underestimate how widespread an assumption or behavior is. |
1:06.4 | I remember talking to someone about habits related to using public restrooms. |
1:10.9 | And I am very interested in people's habits, but why we happen to be exploring that particular |
1:16.5 | angle? I do not remember. She told me with modest pride in her ingenuity. |
1:24.1 | I always want to use the least used stall in a public restroom, so I never choose the first stall. |
1:29.9 | I took one in the middle. I had to break the news to her. |
1:34.8 | Actually, I said, research shows that it's the stalls in the center that get the most used. |
1:40.4 | She thought she was making a choice to outwit everyone else, and everyone else was doing exactly |
1:48.7 | the same thing. We're more alike and more different than we think. I'll post a link to the research |
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