Why our brain sabotages our ambitions in favor of cake
Humans are clever creatures. We thought up outer space travel, penicillin, and the internet. We’ve come a long way in the past hundred years and consider ourselves the most intelligent beings around. And yet, we make irrational decisions to this day. We’d rather stay at a job where we’re unhappy than pursue something else. We don’t start working on a project for months until only a few days are left. We do things that will likely lead to regret down the road… so why do we do them? We’re not as in control as we think We like to think…
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