Why do you know exactly what you need to do and yet you don't do it? The answer is almost never a lack of willpower. Your brain chooses what costs less energy and pays off faster, preferring the known bad to uncertainty, and decides many things before you even realize it. While you blame yourself for procrastination, poor sleep, the stress of the week, and an undigested emotion have already chosen for you.
We discuss how decision-making really works, why a good decision can lead to a bad outcome, the cognitive biases that drain your money and attention (default choice, status quo, planning fallacy, social influence), why forbidding yourself a habit only increases craving, and how to replace one behavior with another instead of leaving a void. We also talk about sleep, the amygdala, bad days, and what to do to break out of autopilot without resorting to suffering.
Amanda Sales is a specialist in Behavioral Neuroscience and hosts the podcast "Have You Ever Stopped to Think About It?"
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Why you know what to do and don't do it
00:05:08 What holds you back and emotion as a compass
00:08:03 Right decision, wrong result
00:10:11 Dopamine and prediction error
00:16:26 Getting out of automatism in practice
00:20:40 Risk, ambiguity and the known bad
00:25:10 How the brain learns habits
00:27:32 Cognitive biases: default choice and status quo
00:33:44 Planning fallacy
00:35:43 Social influence and the environment that drags you down
00:43:02 The myth of willpower
00:43:47 Outcome bias and base rate neglect
00:47:37 Negativity bias, thumbnails, and rage bait
00:52:55 Sleep, stress, and the amygdala in your choices
00:58:14 Why self-prohibition is the worst strategy
01:01:04 Substitute instead of cutting
01:03:46 Immediacy and your 10-year-from-now self
01:10:32 The story of starting from scratch
01:14:53 Writing, speaking, and seeking evidence against
01:18:16 What to do on bad days
01:22:14 Final message: stop and think
Why do you know exactly what you need to do and yet you don't do it? The answer is almost never a lack of willpower. Your brain chooses what costs less energy and pays off faster, preferring the known bad to uncertainty, and decides many things before you even realize it. While you blame yourself for procrastination, poor sleep, the stress of the week, and an undigested emotion have already chosen for you.
We discuss how decision-making really works, why a good decision can lead to a bad outcome, the cognitive biases that drain your money and attention (default choice, status quo, planning fallacy, social influence), why forbidding yourself a habit only increases craving, and how to replace one behavior with another instead of leaving a void. We also talk about sleep, the amygdala, bad days, and what to do to break out of autopilot without resorting to suffering.
Amanda Sales is a specialist in Behavioral Neuroscience and hosts the podcast "Have You Ever Stopped to Think About It?"
Meet the only trimmer that doesn't pinch COUPON SEMGROSELHA 👇
https://qr.codes/RF91u6
Instagram: fermentotv
Instagram: semgroselhapodcast
Instagram: amandasalesneuro
ADVERTISING: contato@semgroselha.com.br
Chapters:
00:00:00 Why you know what to do and don't do it
00:05:08 What holds you back and emotion as a compass
00:08:03 Right decision, wrong result
00:10:11 Dopamine and prediction error
00:16:26 Getting out of automatism in practice
00:20:40 Risk, ambiguity and the known bad
00:25:10 How the brain learns habits
00:27:32 Cognitive biases: default choice and status quo
00:33:44 Planning fallacy
00:35:43 Social influence and the environment that drags you down
00:43:02 The myth of willpower
00:43:47 Outcome bias and base rate neglect
00:47:37 Negativity bias, thumbnails, and rage bait
00:52:55 Sleep, stress, and the amygdala in your choices
00:58:14 Why self-prohibition is the worst strategy
01:01:04 Substitute instead of cutting
01:03:46 Immediacy and your 10-year-from-now self
01:10:32 The story of starting from scratch
01:14:53 Writing, speaking, and seeking evidence against
01:18:16 What to do on bad days
01:22:14 Final message: stop and think