You may have read other articles around the internet purporting that a full bladder helps us make better choices. This makes for sensational headlines but isn’t exactly true.
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Making decisions is something we do every day, all day. An average person makes between 3000 and 10 000 decisions a day. Many of these decisions are made without you really noticing that you arrived at
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