SYSK Selects: How Willpower Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 30 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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You use it every day to overcome your lower self (which wants you to eat cake until your vision blurs) in pursuit of the goals of your higher self (which wants you to not develop Type-II diabetes). Yet it was only in the 1990s that researchers began to un

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Hey everybody, welcome to Stuff You Should Know, Selection.
0:33.7	This is Chuck here and this week it's my pick and I'm going to go with how Will Power
0:37.7	works.
0:38.7	From February 7th, 2013 and frankly I'm picking this one because I need to listen to this
0:44.6	one again because I have no will power and something I need to work on.
0:48.5	So I'm going to check it out again.
0:50.0	I encourage you to do the same.
0:52.0	It's pretty neat episode.
0:53.4	So here we go with how Will Power works.
1:00.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, from Howstuffworks.com.
1:10.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:18.2	I'm Josh Clark and sitting across from me putting on his Love Your Mama Lit Ball.
1:25.2	What's filled flavor?
1:27.2	That is almond actually.
1:28.2	Yummy.
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