Okay, so just lay out the problem for me.

So last week I got an email that this website was having a big sale and I go to the website there's like this black leather backpack and I cannot

think of one scenario where I would need a black leather backpack. In fact, that sounds like a

horrible sweaty, very sweaty idea. But I bought it and instead of using it it is just sitting in a box on my dresser for a week and guess how much it was Charles?

I don't even...

The bag was $300. How frequently does that happen? How often do I get the

temptation of a deal every day? And how often do you actually go and buy something?

This week, I've done it twice.

And today's just Wednesday. Like there's only been two and a quarter days so far this week.

Honestly, Charles, I've bought Duig, and it's about how habits work and how people can change them. And pretty soon after it came out, I started hearing from all these people who would

contact me and say, hey, I've got this problem in my life and I was wondering if you could

help me solve it. And that was kind of unexpected because I'm not a therapist. I'm a journalist.

But I do come across these stories all the time from the worlds of science and business and social

psychology stories that seem to offer these clues into how we can fix some of the

problems that everyone faces. And so I started to develop this hypothesis that if we can find the right story for the right person,

maybe we can figure out how to solve these problems together.

And so today, we're talking to Ashley.

I am a comedian, so I perform at night and I'm a writer during the day.

She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend.

She just got her first real TV writing job with the

National Geographic channel and so far this week Ashley has bought some extra

sheets from J.C. Penny some makeup that she doesn't really need and another round of Disney pins a set of Walt Disney

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