AFAICT, standard human behavior is a lot more multiprocess and conflicted than most of us would like to think about. Framing the situation as "Steering your emo

AFAICT, standard human behavior is a lot more multiprocess and conflicted than most of us would like to think about. Framing the situation as "Steering your emotions is like steering and elephant." is a lot more realistic and useful than a (extreme example) monoistic approach like "Why did you eat that dessert? Are you lying to me about being on a diet? Or, do you not understand how diets work? Well, which one is it?" The reality is a third option: your foreground process knows you need to lose weight, but some background process has the conflicting goal of eating high-calorie food. The good news is that with practice, your foreground process can learn to recognize these conflicts as they are forming and gently steer them to a non-conflicting state before they get out of control. So, the end result is conflict reduction, not conflict induction.