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He built the biggest jewellery chain in the world. Then he stood up at the Royal Albert Hall and called his products crap.

Featuring: Gerald Ratner, Rabindranath Tagore, Carl Jung

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Chapters:

(00:00) Tagore on being too busy to be good
(00:08) Gerald Ratner's joke costs 500 million pounds
(00:50) A smash burger after a month of dieting
(01:07) The brain grants slack after effort
(01:19) Self-sabotage wears the costume of a reward
(01:23) Deciding the reward before you start

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