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Why is there such a gap between what you want to do and what you actually do? The co-host of The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike explains why our desires and our real lives are so wildly different--and what you can do to close the gap. For thousands of years, scientists, philosophers, and self-help gurus have wrestled with one of the basic conundrums of human life: why we do the things we do. Or rather, why we so often don't do the things that we want to do. As host of The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, Mike McHargue gets thousands of emails each week from listeners seeking to understand their own misbehavior--why we binge Netflix when we know taking a walk outside would be better for us, or why we scroll Facebook when our real friends live just down the street.