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you ve got staying power. larry: i guess one of the definitions of insanity was repeating the same thing and expecting different results. yes. larry: let s get to overeating. what does the brain expect? i want to stop just for a second here at the question you posed before going to the break, which is, does will power work. and what you have to understand is, this is the disease of addiction that i work with, that will power, the usual systems that we deploy to decide and to affect volition actually get usurped by the distorted drive systems of addiction. so you start thinking the wrong things. you start feeling that the wrong
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