The idea of switching up your bathroom habits can be unsettling. The longer you've been doing something a certain way, the more uncomfortable and burdensome the idea of change feels. If you've been using toilet paper your entire life, the idea of switching to a bidet might feel foreign, or even a little threatening. There's a huge commercial industry that wants you to feel that way. In a speech to a business summit in 2005, Jeff Bezos analyzed the psychology of learned helpl

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