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Trying to overcome human nature will make the process long, but aligning with it will make it fast. Good habits and bad habits are only relative—more often than not, bad habits align with human nature, while good habits are the opposite.
Trying to overcome human nature will make the process long, but aligning with it will make it fast. Good habits and bad habits are only relative—more often than not, bad habits align with human nature, while good habits are the opposite.
I think a good litmus test for a lot of behaviors is: "is this behavior serving me, or am I serving it?"
Trying to overcome human nature will make the process long, but aligning with it will make it fast. Good habits and bad habits are only relative—more often than not, bad habits align with human nature, while good habits are the opposite.
I think a good litmus test for a lot of behaviors is: "is this behavior serving me, or am I serving it?"
After that realization I stopped drinking and have never felt like it again.
And change¹ isn't really what we do; we cover bad with good.
We surface counterproductive drivers.
We counter them by layering new thinking/behaviors over old.
Each layer is it's own project and most don't stick for a while.
¹ see also, healingEarlier quoted context omitted.
There's a tendency sometimes to leave certain words implicit. "It does not [even] take 21 days to form a habit." Some of those linguistic habits never leave their birthplace, giving you colloquialisms like "do you want to come with [us]" in the Midwest. Most don't have any regional association though, and sentences with dropped fragments sound perfectly normal, with your mind filling in the gaps. In this case, the se…
"Do you want to come with" is a Midwest colloquialism?? Wow I say it all the time. Very weird to find out.
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What is your healthier breakfast? I never really learned what is considered a healthy breakfast.
Mine is a bowl of old fashion oats, frozen mixed fruit (I like a blueberry/blackberry mix), and maybe some non-fat plain greek yogurt and/or a glass a of plain soy milk. Alternatively, a couple of scrambled eggs with a piece of toast and a bananna is fairly healthy. A fried egg on an English muffin also isn't a terrible way to start the day. Target ~400 cals, Try and get some protein and fiber in there. Watch out for…
The oatmeal was a "big bowl" variety from a packet. I heard rolled oats might be better but it's a hassle to cook.
Most days breakfast is scrambled eggs (3 eggs), spinach, cheese. Sometimes I add tuna or avocado for variety. That keeps things stable.
Oh, that kind of habit. The good kind. It can take much less than 1 day to form a bad habit. I wonder how that asymmetry really is - were ancient humans less exposed to addictive substances and had no need to evolve a way to stop that? I have no idea what I'm talking about so, I'll end the comment here.
Maybe it's still a honeymoon thing for me but I've been trying out keto diet for few weeks and, anecdotally, now whenever I eat carbs I get a weird high. If you told me that people started farming to do it consistently, I'd believe you. Similarly, if I avoid carbs at all cost even for a day, by night I feel so bad that I must have some. Point is that as far as I can tell eating carbs is a habit/addiction as well, but…
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What is your healthier breakfast? I never really learned what is considered a healthy breakfast.
Mine is a bowl of old fashion oats, frozen mixed fruit (I like a blueberry/blackberry mix), and maybe some non-fat plain greek yogurt and/or a glass a of plain soy milk. Alternatively, a couple of scrambled eggs with a piece of toast and a bananna is fairly healthy. A fried egg on an English muffin also isn't a terrible way to start the day. Target ~400 cals, Try and get some protein and fiber in there. Watch out for…