Mark Manson

So we didn't talk about Aristotle earlier, but Aristotle's solution for Akrasia was habituation.

He said that basically the only way to train yourself to do the things that you don't wanna do is to find ways to create habits around it so that it feels automatic, even when you don't feel like doing it.

And anybody who like is quote unquote super disciplined

If you talk to them, how do you work so many hours, right?

Like how do you get up so early?

They don't think about it.

Because if you have to think about it every time you do it, you're gonna lose momentum at a certain point.

So like James Clear in Atomic Habits has a great framework for this.

He has four different kind of mandates for adopting any new behavior.

He says, number one, make it obvious.

Don't like anything complicated, you're probably not gonna stick to it.

So like...

just make it super super super immediate and obvious like what you should be doing the second thing is he says make it attractive so make it feel rewarding when you do it and you can do this in a bunch of different ways you can set up an accountability system you can

um you know do it with a friend um you can post pictures and put it on instagram and tag all your friends whatever the third one is make it easy which is what we've been talking about right find the minimum viable action remove as much friction as possible and then the fourth one is make it satisfying ali abdul has a great take on this which is he he he actually focuses on making it fun

which as an ADHD person, I really appreciate that.

Like I love the gamification of things and I love like, you know, doing things with other people and like creating some sort of, whether it's competitiveness or cooperation in some way, the way I would apply this, right.

Is like map out for the next 10 days, one small cooking task I'm going to do each night, um,

prep fully beforehand, like buy all the groceries beforehand, and then maybe create some sort of accountability system, like tell a friend that, hey, if I don't do these 10 things, like I owe you a hundred bucks or I gotta take you to dinner or something.

That would just be one simple example of like, here's how you would effectively start adopting a new behavior if you really wanted to.

Like intangible, emotional.