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It's quite easy to influence your lizard brain's urges and impulses directly through a one-time action, and much harder to manually override them through contin
by majewsky 8y ago
It's quite easy to influence your lizard brain's urges and impulses directly through a one-time action, and much harder to manually override them through continuous conscious interference.
- fapjacks 8y agoThis is where the ancient Stoics come in handy. I still struggle mightily with these kinds of things every single day, but we are animals, after all. It is certainly a lot easier for me than it was before I started studying stoicism, though.
- Dylan16807 8y agoSome gum makes the right decisions a little easier. A list removes the need to decide at all.
- Retric 8y agoYou can minimize the effort. I only go down isles that have what I need, so I can skip a lot of stuff without thinking about it. I avoid looking at the racks at checkout or areas that don't have what I need which again means I don't need to exercise self control.
- martin-adams 8y agoDon't forget supermarkets stacks the stuff you don't need but may buy on impulse at the end of isles, meaning you still have to pass them.