Dr. Keith Humphreys

I've always thought it was clever of AA to have the...

One day at a time concept, you know, which maybe seems like hokey, like a slogan, but you can't suddenly quit drinking for the rest of your life.

It's not here yet, right?

And that just seems inconceivable.

But can you not drink today?

Not drink today and go to a meeting and get some reward for that?

Yeah, you can probably do that.

And so just do that.

every day and then you will have 30 years eventually.

But you don't have to wait for all those rewards because very, very few people can do that.

And of the ones who really can, they're probably not very prone to addiction.

People who think that far ahead all the time and have extremely high self-control say they'd be less likely.

So this is also part of when you look at motivation.

So some people think what you do is you say drugs are bad, look at all these things, it's ruining you, you know, it does this, it's hurting you this way, that way, this way.

In effect, you're kind of telling the person they're an idiot, right, if you actually do that.

So you get them to articulate.

Well, clearly you like some things about it.

What are they?

And put them on the table.

Well, you know, it's just like my friendship group has always drunk and I would just love those hunting trips.