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Discipline merely describes the phenomenon of consistently making certain choices in the long-run to achieve a goal. We leverage habit-creation precisely becaus
by slothtrop 4y ago
Discipline merely describes the phenomenon of consistently making certain choices in the long-run to achieve a goal. We leverage habit-creation precisely because motivation is fickle and habits can facilitate discipline.
Feeling guilty or shameful is not what keeps people from procrastinating or making the wrong choices - that is a colossal failure in that regard, instead guilt just becomes the price of admission to do something other than maintaining discipline. Negative emotion is the price to pay to binge-eat, to avoid exercising, etc.
- rednerrus 4y agoI think there may be an issue here where the two perceptions of the world are both right. For people with pain avoidance tendencies the part of their brain that creates reward may actually be damaged. So they can only avoid pain as there is no/diminished reward for them in completing a task. The feedback loop for people avoiding pain may be different than the feedback loop for people who are chasing a reward. This would be really hard to understand both ways if you had only ever experienced one or the other.