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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Choice Blindness, Maintaining Habits and Achieving Goals, and Don’t Give Up If Your Diet Fails

Learn about how your brain can trick you into changing your mind; how to set goals you can achieve to make your life better; and what to do if you’re on a diet and you start to slip up.

January 02, 2019

Episode Show Notes:

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

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