Mark Manson

It's more effective in many cases to replace the adaptation with another adaptation that can provide a similar role for their life.

It'll make the chances of successful change much higher.

Sounds awful.

You want to feel like you're.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Yeah, I have a family member who did that.

Yeah, I think it depends on how ingrained the behavior you're trying to change is.

If it's like a very fundamental part of your daily routine.

And if you're like emotionally dependent upon it in some way, then yes, you probably need to replace it to some degree with something else.

Like, and if it's numbing something for you, you probably need to replace it with something else that's gonna numb you.

A lot of what marketing is, is trying to insert a product as an adaptation into your life.

It's like, if you think about like newspapers, right?

Like at some point, somebody, some very smart person realized that people wanna start their day feeling productive.

And so if you can convince them to read a paper every morning.

If you're informed and you feel, yeah.

And then you feel like you're ready to conquer the day.

Like there's just so much stuff in our life that is ultimately the product of marketers telling us

Hey, this is going to make you more adaptable to your environment.

So replace this one behavior with this other behavior.