Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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And marrying the two, I would say that optimists build the planes and pessimists build the parachutes.

And we need both.

All right.

Let's talk about how...

So 75% of the time people know what to do.

If you ask them, what are the exercise guidelines?

What's the nutrition plan?

What should you be eating?

They know it.

The problem is that we make, each individual, we make 30,000 decisions a day.

And 200 of them are about food, right?

The problem is that every time you are reinventing the wheel when you're making a decision, okay, I'm waiting for my motivation to happen, right?

I'm waiting for some inspiration for me to go to the gym.

You are then engaging your prefrontal cortex and that is your CEO.

It is very expensive.

You will not be asking your CEO to clean the toilets.

I hope not, right?

Like that's a mismanagement and a poor use of resources and poor use of cognitive resources.

So the prefrontal cortex should make a decision one time.

And that is where your intentions lie, your goals, your big picture thinking.

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