#117 The Dumb Things We All Do - "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely

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  You're listening to episode number 117 of the Feel Good English podcast, The Dumb Things.

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  We all do.

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  Hello there, Kevin here with another episode of the Feel Good English podcast.

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  Cast?

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  How are you?

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  Thanks for joining me again, and if you're new here, welcome.

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  I hope this podcast makes you feel good.

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  Good about English and life, because that's what I do.

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  Teach life lessons for those out there that would like to become great English speakers and would like to have a great life too.

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  Well, greater life.

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  Today, I have some ideas from a very interesting book called Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.

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  And the main point in this book, the overall message is that much of our behavior is misguided, irrational.

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  Through research and study, the author has found that a lot of this irrational behavior is also predictable,

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  which means there are very human and natural reasons we behave this way.

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  So to kick things off, let's talk about these two words, irrational and predictable.

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  Irrational, or not rational, is when we act without logic or in an unreasonable way.

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  Irrational.

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  Irrational.

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  You're not acting rational.

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  And predictable, to predict, you probably know what that means.

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