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Speaker 1: Two percent. That is the number of people who choose

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Speaker 1: to take the stairs when there's also an escalator available,

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Speaker 1: only two percent. Now, I would argue that one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent of people know that taking the stairs would be

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Speaker 1: better for them, yet ninety eight percent of people choose

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Speaker 1: to do the easier, more effortless thing that could actually

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Speaker 1: that statistic. It's not really about taking the stairs. It

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Speaker 1: is a mindset for living. Every single day, we face

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Speaker 1: simple decisions, perhaps when you're commuting to work, we're shopping

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Speaker 1: the slightly harder thing that helps us in the long

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Speaker 1: short term comfort. And it turns out those simple decisions

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Speaker 1: are the best long term predictor of your physical health,

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Speaker 1: your mental health, and how resilient you'll be in the

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Speaker 1: face of life's challenges. I'm Michael Easter. I'm a best

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Speaker 1: selling author of the books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcy

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Speaker 1: Do Brain, and on my podcast two Percent, I break

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Speaker 1: down the science behind mental toughness, fitness, ancient wisdom, and

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Speaker 1: modern stress. On this show, each week, I'll be speaking

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Speaker 2: The nutrition sphere is just so toxic, but exercise catching up,

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Speaker 2: we're getting just as toxic. There is an entire segment

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Speaker 3: Do you want to experience fantastic things shifts? Put yourself

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Speaker 1: On two percent, you'll get practical information that will help

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