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| "text": " was a surgeon and I couldn't come up with the right answer. That to me is a great example" | |
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| "text": " but what you see in the world is what's driving that. So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote" | |
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| "text": " Professor Maserine Benaghi. If I were to give you a lecture on fat and sugar and how our body" | |
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| "text": " converts that into energy at the end of a three hour training program on that will you have lost" | |
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| "text": " So what else can we do? Everyone I spoke to had suggestions. Occupational psychologist" | |
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| "text": " one's retweets and say have I been balanced in my approach? You just do it in the moment don't you?" | |
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| "text": " don't just do that by telling them that once a year in a training session. You do that by alerting" | |
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| "text": " them to that information in the moment of decision making. That's smart. And lastly business psychologist" | |
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| "text": " That was analysis. Now, Rian there's a massive backlog of this podcast. It's for expected" | |
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| "text": " 2005 I think and it's for me it's really neat looking through these past episodes because" | |
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| "text": " they sort of capture what it felt like to be living then you know it's about current events but it" | |
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| "text": " doesn't feel irrelevant or obsolete because it's not just Newsy it's got this level of sort of thought" | |
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| "text": " and reflection put into it. It gives you really useful context but if you're one of these people" | |
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| "text": " a bit like me I get a bit scared by a massive fat catarole. Yeah, no it's true. The next" | |
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| "text": " EPS coming up in this series of analysis they've got some great topics in that I'm looking" | |
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| "text": " forward particularly at the one which looks at how to be an authoritarian dictator. Okay." | |
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| "text": " That's ahead I think in the next three or four weeks. Right okay sort of a how-to." | |
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| "text": " Yeah. Can I just suggest one from the back catalog just so that'll give you another" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " is it how to live with a different dictator? I give you a specific example of something so you" | |
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| "text": " don't have to worry about 300 episodes or something you just go back and find this one. Like if you're" | |
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| "text": " a fan of the assassination the current podcast from the World Service talking about the assassination" | |
| }, | |
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| "text": " of Benazio Bouto Owen Bennett Jones who is the presenter of that podcast has an episode of analysis" | |
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| "text": " from several years ago all about Pakistani religious radicals. That's great. That's all from us." | |
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| "text": " See you next time." | |
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