The People Who Need To Overcome Temptation

When You're In Pain, Tomorrow Doesn't Exist - Just The Pain - And The Only Thing That You Want In The World Is For It To Go Away.

We Usually Think Of Ourselves As Sitting The Driver's Seat, With Ultimate Control Over The Decisions We Made And The Direction Our Life Takes; But, Alas, This Perception Has More To Do With Our Desires-with How We Want To View Ourselves, Than With Reality.

Take A Brilliant, Creative Social Scientist, Without Any Respect For Conventional Wisdom And You Get Ellen Langer. She Is A Fantastic Storyteller, And Counterclockwise Is A Fascinating Story About The Unexpected Ways In Which Our Minds And Bodies Are Connected.

People Are Irrational - And Predictably So.

If You Want To Spend More Money In Restaurants, Use Credit Cards More Than Cash. If You Want To Spend Less, Use Cash More Than Credit Cards. But In General, We Can Think About How To Use The Pain Of Paying And How Much Of It Do We Want. And I Think We Have Like A Range. Credit Cards Have Very Little Pain Of Paying, Debit Cards Have A Little Bit More Because You Feel Like Today, At Least It Is Coming Out Of Your Checking Account, And Cash Has Much More.