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The title is misleading as usual. The article is about removing temptation being a better strategy than exercising self-control in the face of temptation (This
by sukilot 6y ago
The title is misleading as usual.
The article is about removing temptation being a better strategy than exercising self-control in the face of temptation (This is then "cultural/religious conservative morality" theory for protecting against immoral behavior).
Judaism calls it "building a fence around the boundary of the law".
- hinkley 6y agoI don’t think we’ve begun to appreciate the bottleneck that our short term memory places on our ability not just to accomplish things but to Reason. Being preoccupied with one distraction is like having a bucket in your foot. Every additional handicap - being tired, irritable, distracted by the environment, piles on top with a multiplier. It makes us rash, or stupid, or both, I suspect we know this subconsciously, and it’s cheaper to just entertain the preoccupation and get it out of your head. Building up patterns, habits that keep such things off of your radar is costly in the short term but cheaper in the long term. That problem rarely ends up hanging out in working memory.