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842. The Four Letters Between You and a Bad Decision
Most of our worst decisions aren't skill problems — they're state problems. You knew better. You just weren't in a place to act on it.
In this episode, Brian breaks down HALT — a four-letter self-check borrowed from the recovery world: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired. It's a fast way to catch a bad decision before you make it. You'll hear why each of these states quietly hijacks your judgment, why they almost never show up one at a time, and the two-second pause that can save you the calls you'd otherwise spend months trying to undo.
Then a single action for the week: run HALT before your…
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