This episode explores how invisible forces, including marketing, government policies, infrastructure design, and social norms, profoundly shape our daily choices. It highlights how these systems dictate everything from our diets to our energy consumption and social behaviors, often overriding individual free will. The experts emphasize the need to understand and intentionally redesign these forces to create more sustainable, equitable, and healthier societies.
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"What we eat is less about what we choose and more about what's offered to us."
— Sarah Lake
"There's kind of a truism that our infrastructural systems are invisible until they break."
— Deb Chautra
"Culture is in destiny. We can tighten up norms when they're getting too loose or loosen up norms when they're getting too tight."
— Michelle Gelfand