The sad fact is that as much as I wanted to believe that positive reinforcement was "better" for me because it was supposedly "better" for people in general, in

The sad fact is that as much as I wanted to believe that positive reinforcement was "better" for me because it was supposedly "better" for people in general, in practice it's only ever been negative reinforcement that has enacted any change in my life. Trying to deny that fact for so long only accomplished setting my life back by several years. Even the simplest things like dental hygiene only became habits because I suffered catastrophic losses from neglecting them. I think it's because my imagination of the failing scenario will never compare to the experience of the failure itself. Whereas if there's no singular point at which the failure becomes obvious and decidedly life-changing, then...