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Drew Burney

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SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

And then we just end up doing them even more than we were before.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

So like trying to stop doing a behavior, a good way to not stop doing it is to try to not do it.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Right?

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Like an example of this is really, like in the 60s is when they put the Surgeon General warnings on packets of cigarettes, you know?

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

It's like everybody shows everybody like, you know, this causes cancer, this is bad for your health, smoking while pregnant, all of that, right?

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

So something like half of the American population back in the 60s was smoking cigarettes daily.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Today it's down to 18%, but you know, millions and millions of people read those warning labels and nothing happened there, right?

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

There's like telling you not to do it.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

If it was just information.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Exactly.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

We'd all have six packs.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

So it goes back to that.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

So that is just one of the weakest ways, I think, to change is to just brute force your way into not doing it.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Okay.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

So what you're saying is most of us want that, those adaptation layer changes right away, if not full blown identity changes right away.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Right.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Right.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

And then, but what we're doing is because we want those emotions to just be able to fuel us and move us.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

Right.

SOLVED with Mark Manson
How to Change Your Life, Solved

I think I've experienced this a million times.