Dr. David Eagleman

I mean, everybody makes New Year's resolutions.

They rarely last a week or two before they drop off.

People get busy.

People get tired or whatever.

So it's just as important with the positive things to hook things to that.

For example, this idea of putting money on the line, there are various websites where you can do this.

You say, okay, look, I'm going to put, you know, 50 bucks on the line that I want to be able to bench 250 by this date or something like that.

And then you've given your money to this company and you have to get to that point so you get your money back.

There are lots of ways to do this.

You know, obviously putting... I think you had James Clear on a little while ago.

And there's all kinds of good ideas that he's got about, you know, put your running shoes near the door or whatever so that it's easy.

You get rid of the friction to go do things like that.

But all of those moves...

are for your future self.

When you put your shoes near the door before you go to sleep that night, you are doing something because you know your future self is going to be a little bit lazy and tired.

Yeah, you know, I would say one of the most fascinating things we've discovered in neuroscience, for my money, is just this issue that along anything we measure, there's a spectrum.

So just take something like the internal voice.

For my wife, for example, she describes it as her inner radio.

She's always hearing her inner voice.

I don't really have one.