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The problem, is that's not how our mind work. Our brain keep the habits that are rewarding period. If you use your willpower you will get tired of them and you
by alfor 8y ago
The problem, is that's not how our mind work. Our brain keep the habits that are rewarding period.
If you use your willpower you will get tired of them and you will find a way to stop.
I am trying https://www.selfauthoring.com/ https://www.selfauthoring.com/ from Jordan Peterson. In this case, it's not about habits, but by writing about your worsts and best parts and thinking about how your life can be better or worst relative to what you do with them.
You make the reward/punishment apparent and you let your mind do build the habits for you.
- sridca 8y agoI would take anything Mr. Peterson produces with a pinch of salt, as his advice and theories stem from the assumption that one can't change human nature.
- tvanantwerp 8y agoI've never engaged with anything by Jordan Peterson, but that assumption sounds perfectly reasonable. Taking human nature to mean "the way people tend to respond to stimuli as a result of evolution", then I don't see that changing in a short time scale like a single lifetime.
- sridca 8y agoIt can[1] but most people including Peterson himself do not care. He alludes to this in his book's introduction. [1] http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/floggedmisconceptions/FFM05a.htm http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/floggedmisconceptions...
- sridca 8y agoThis is not to say that his advice is useless. I think it can be useful from certain contexts in life. But for any ultimate achievement in what is humanly possible one needs to look beyond what he professes to be possible.