Your Brain on Money

5 episodes

Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution — all so you can make smarter financial decisions.

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The secret habits that control your life

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Frank Wilczek

How ‘flow state’ can heal trauma

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