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b'Anyone who\\u2019s ever tried to lose weight, curb their temper, quit smoking, or alter any other habit in their lives knows that personal change is hard. Really hard.\\n\\nMost self-help books out there treat people like machines, blitzing past this difficulty and offering mechanical 5-step formulas for changing your life.\\n\\nMy guest today says such simplified solutions hugely miss the mark. He argues that if you ever want to change, it\\u2019s more fruitful to understand why you don\\u2019t, than figure why you do, and to understand that, you\\u2019ve got to go deeper, existential even.\\n\\nHis name is Dr. Ross Ellenhorn, and he\\u2019s spent his career facilitating the recovery of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric and substance abuse issues. In his latest book, How We Change (And Ten Reasons Why We Don\\u2019t), he\\u2019s taken what he\\u2019s learned in his work and applied it to anyone trying to change their lives.'