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Back to episode — Episode 3037 CWSA 12/05/25

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and you can decide if you like it or you don't like it? What would my involvement be worth? You know, yeah, I don't know if the things she says will check out. How would I know? I know that she is very entertaining and very talented and I like her personally. The rest, it's just up to you. Yeah. But I just don't think that my opinion on the topic makes any difference. Well, while we have a minute…

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edge problem.

You know how many of you already know that the reframe "alcohol is poison" was enough to make a whole bunch of people stop drinking. So the way you think about things will influence what you do. And I find that if I think about food as a knowledge problem and I know which things are good for me and which are not, I just automatically eat better. So as long as you think about it as a knowledge problem, you'll just automatically gravitate to better food with no real effort.

For example, if you didn't know that sugar donuts are a little bit bad for you, you know, too much sugar, etc. If you didn't know that, wouldn't you eat them? Of course you would. But if I told you a sugar donut would give you a 50% chance of getting diabetes, which is not true, but just work with me here, would it be hard to avoid it? It would not. It would not. So just knowing more about which foods ar

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e going to be good for you and which are bad really just replaces willpower because you don't really want to do things that are bad for you. It just comes naturally. That's why "alcohol is poison" is such a strong reframe. If you're just joining, the reason I started early today is that the Locals app was having a hiccup. So normally I do a pre-show before the regular show just for the subscribe…

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