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You wake up.

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Before your eyes are even fully open,

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your hand reaches for your phone.

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No one told you to do it.

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No one forced you to do it.

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You just do it.

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Every single day.

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You think it's because you're addicted to social media.

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You think it's because you lack willpower.

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But the real answer is far stranger.

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That action doesn't come from your willpower.

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It comes from a machine built by your ancestors over two million

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years ago.

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You don't have habits.

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Habits have you.

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That may sound weird,

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but it is the biological truth.

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Your brain was not designed to think all the time.

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Thinking consumes energy.

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A lot of energy.

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Occupying only 2 % of your body weight,

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your brain devours up to 20 % of the energy you consume every day.

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For your ancestors,

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hunter -gatherers living in constant famine,

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that was a lethal luxury.

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So evolution did something very smart.

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It built a shortcut.

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That shortcut is called the basal ganglia,

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a cluster of brain cells located deep beneath the cerebral cortex,

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responsible for remembering how to do something so you don't have to think from

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scratch every single time.

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Simply put,

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the basal ganglia is the storage center for your autopilot

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mode.

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And once it has learned a behavior,

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it doesn't want you to think about it anymore.

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It wants you to let it handle it.

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Imagine your ancestors standing in the middle of the African savanna.

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No supermarkets,

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no refrigerators.

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Every decision,

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which way to walk,

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what to eat,

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which beast to avoid,

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could be the line between life and death.

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If the brain had to think hard before every step,

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your ancestors would have starved to death long ago because thinking is

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too slow.

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So the brain does this.

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It turns repeated behaviors into preset formulas.

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Three steps,

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unchanging,

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for millions of years.

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One,

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cue.

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Something triggers your brain.

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Sunlight,

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the smell of smoke,

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the feeling of hunger.

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Two,

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action.

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Your body reacts.

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Find water.

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Build a fire.

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Move away from the growl.

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3.

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Reward.

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Your brain releases dopamine,

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a feel -good chemical that acts as a gold star your brain

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awards itself.

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This loop is called the habit loop.

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Cue.

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Action.

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Reward.

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Repeat.

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The scary part is,

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once this loop is deeply carved,

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the basal ganglia will prioritize it over the prefrontal cortex,

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the part of the brain responsible for your reason,

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planning,

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and willpower.

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In other words,

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the wise part of your brain often loses to the automatic part

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not because you are weak but because your brain structure is designed

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to save energy not to be right.

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Anthropologists have observed this all over the world.

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In remaining hunter -gatherer communities,

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like the Sand People in the Kalahari Desert,

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daily rituals remain almost unchanged across generations.

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The times for finding water,

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the way food is shared,

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the order of tasks in a day.

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Not because they lack creativity,

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but because habits are humanity's oldest survival

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technology,

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predating even language.

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But here is the weirdest part.

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You always think bad habits are due to a lack of willpower.

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The truth is,

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willpower is almost irrelevant to breaking a habit.

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Why?

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Because the habit loop is not stored in the part of the brain that knows

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how to reason.

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It is stored in the part of the brain that knows how to react.

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You cannot reason your way out of a reflex,

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just as you cannot reason your heart into stopping.

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This is why just trying harder almost always fails.

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You are pitting your reason against a 2 million -year -old survival instinct,

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and instinct always wins the first round.

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But there is a second counterintuitive truth even more interesting.

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Your brain doesn't actually distinguish between good and bad habits.

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To the basal ganglia,

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there is no concept of morality.

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There is only,

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this has provided a reward before.

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Repeat it.

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Smoking,

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biting your nails,

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scrolling through your phone,

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and even jogging every morning,

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reading before sleep,

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are all stored and operated by the same biological mechanism,

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the same three -step loop.

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This means you don't need to conquer willpower.

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You need to rewrite the loop.

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Behavioral psychologists call this the principle of keeping the cue and

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reward the same,

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changing the action in the middle.

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You cannot erase the loop.

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Your brain won't allow that.

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But you can swap out its core.

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This is exactly how your ancestors adapted when the environment changed

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suddenly, like when the ice sheets melted or forests turned into grasslands.

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They didn't erase survival instincts.

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They swapped out specific behaviors while keeping the cue -reward

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structure intact.

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That is why humans adapt faster than almost any other species

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on Earth.

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Now look back at your modern world.

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The apps on your phone were not designed randomly.

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They were designed by people who understand the habit loop better than anyone.

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Notifications are the cue.

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Scrolling is the action.

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A surprising,

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interesting piece of content is the reward.

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This is not an accident.

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This is engineering.

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The modern tech industry has unintentionally,

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or intentionally,

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replicated the exact survival mechanism your ancestors

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used to find food on the savanna.

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The only difference is,

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the savanna had limits.

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The news feed does not.

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This explains why you feel powerless against your phone,

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even when you know exactly what you are doing,

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not because you are weak,

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but because you are facing a machine designed to exploit the oldest survival

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system in your brain.

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But this is also good news,

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because if a habit is just a three -step loop,

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you don't need to be stronger to change it.

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You just need to find exactly which cue is triggering you and

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have a different action ready that provides a similar reward.

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Someone who wants to quit the habit of checking their phone during downtime doesn't

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need to fight willpower.

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They just need to change the action step,

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for example,

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by taking a few minutes to breathe,

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reading a page of a book,

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or simply getting up and walking around while keeping the cue and

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finding a comparable reward.

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That is not a self -help hack.

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That is you working in accordance with two million years of your

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brain's evolution instead of fighting against it.

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There is something worth reflecting on here.

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Every habit you have today,

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good or bad,

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is living proof of a system that helped humanity survive through hundreds

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of thousands of years of famine,

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climate change,

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and the extinction of countless other species.

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That shortcut you used to think was your weakness?

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It is the very reason your ancestors survived to

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bring you into existence.

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The problem isn't that your brain is broken.

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The problem is that your brain is running ancient software in a

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modern world designed to exploit that very software.

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And once you see the loop,

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cue, action,

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reward,

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you are no longer its victim.

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You become its programmer.

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Tomorrow morning when you wake up,

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your hand might still reach for your phone before your eyes are fully open.

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But this time,

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you will know.

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It's not that you lack willpower.

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It's a two -million -year -old loop running exactly as

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it was designed to run.

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The question isn't how to be stronger than it.

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The question is,

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what action will you place in the middle of that loop?

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