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Podcast: It's Not About the Alcohol
Episode: EP152 Why your motivation is unreliable and how neuroscience can help you change with Unstoppable Brain author Dr. Kyra Bobinet
Description: Do you ever feel like you know exactly what you should be doing but you just can't get yourself to do it?  Most of us have learned to get what we want by setting clear and specific goals and then using metrics to judge our success. We focus on changing the numbers–obsessing over how much we weigh, how much we drink or how much money we have in the bank.  But even when we achieve the goal, our motivation to keep making an effort eventually fades. And we feel increasingly disap...