“Our conscious mind tries hard to preserve the illusion that it deliberately chose every action you have ever taken; in reality, in many of these decisions it was a bystander at best, and much of the time it did not even notice the decision being made.”
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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
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Rory Sutherland
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