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Our brains behave like a beachball filled with bees. Hundreds of conflicting impulses, pushing us in different directions.

Our brains behave like a beachball filled with bees. Hundreds of conflicting impulses, pushing us in different directions. People never want to do one thing. We want to do all the things. We simultaneously want to exercise and to learn Spanish and to go out for pizza. Our desires are countless, independent agents, working to nudge our beachball in their own selfish direction. And so usually, that ball is going nowhere. It’s controlled more by the terrain than by the will of what’s inside it. This is how most people live their lives. We feel endlessly conflicted. We never have enough time. And

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