Temptation always wins over determination. Will power doesn't work. Human will power is weak, the environment is strong. Anyone who is close to foods will eat, who is close to turned-on TV will watch TV. Ulysses tied himself on a mast because he knew that he would act differently in front of the great temptation, the Sirens.
"The fittest survives", this expression from Darwin highlights that individual can't escape from the environtment. Environment is alway stronger than will power. If you go to the south pole, you can't survive on your willpower just wearing t-shirt and shortpants.
Most people overestimate their will power over temptation. Such individuals often end up as losers. Anyone who behaves irrationally will not succeed. Their over confidence derives from their ignorance and wishful thingking. For example, most new year resolutions will fail only few months after the new year, most people studying new languages give up after few months or few years, most new business collapse after few months. People are often fail on their diet programs. These things won't happen if we know that we are not as good and as strong as we thought. We need to set the environtment to minimize or even remove the temptations.
Learnt from Ulysses you should set the environment to work for you not against you. If you want to diet, stay away from foods, do not store any foods in the refrigerator, make it difficult to access your temptations. If you want to read more, always bring book everywhere, put away your phones in silent mode, stay away from anything that can distract you.
If you read a lot of books about freewill, you will find great minds such as Spinoza and Immanuel Kant don't believe in free will, your behavior is either the reactions of or caused by the environment, the outsides. If hot you will sweat, if cold you will shiver, and so on. You are not at all bulletproof to temptations, you are open and fragile to temptations. And you will lose. From now on, forget about will power, set the strategy to shape the environment for our benefit.
"The fittest survives", this expression from Darwin highlights that individual can't escape from the environtment. Environment is alway stronger than will power. If you go to the south pole, you can't survive on your willpower just wearing t-shirt and shortpants.
Most people overestimate their will power over temptation. Such individuals often end up as losers. Anyone who behaves irrationally will not succeed. Their over confidence derives from their ignorance and wishful thingking. For example, most new year resolutions will fail only few months after the new year, most people studying new languages give up after few months or few years, most new business collapse after few months. People are often fail on their diet programs. These things won't happen if we know that we are not as good and as strong as we thought. We need to set the environtment to minimize or even remove the temptations.
Learnt from Ulysses you should set the environment to work for you not against you. If you want to diet, stay away from foods, do not store any foods in the refrigerator, make it difficult to access your temptations. If you want to read more, always bring book everywhere, put away your phones in silent mode, stay away from anything that can distract you.
If you read a lot of books about freewill, you will find great minds such as Spinoza and Immanuel Kant don't believe in free will, your behavior is either the reactions of or caused by the environment, the outsides. If hot you will sweat, if cold you will shiver, and so on. You are not at all bulletproof to temptations, you are open and fragile to temptations. And you will lose. From now on, forget about will power, set the strategy to shape the environment for our benefit.
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