Your Brain on Commitment

Another New Year's has come and gone now all you're left with are your 2019 resolutions -- yet, 80% will fail at those by Valentine's Day. Why don't things go the way you planned? Is the world out to get you?

World-renowned Kavli Prize-winning neuroscientist Dr. Michael Merzenich sat down to talk about Your Brain on Commitment, and the science behind why so many people struggle to stay true to their goals. Dr. Merzenich explains that the brain is far more likely to be able to stay on task if it has a healthy executive function - the brain’s control mechanism used in planning, reasoning, and decision-making.

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