Mark Manson

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Video games.

Yeah.

So, I think it's probably worth double-clicking a little bit on...

environmental design.

You mentioned really briefly not keeping junk food in the house.

That's like this- Right.

People don't realize this, but the structure of your environment around you is making a lot of your behavioral decisions for you, and it's doing it without your awareness or consent.

so until you learn how to change that environment in a specific way you are doomed to follow the path of least resistance it's funny you said that like you have trained yourself to work out in midday like one thing i did for a long time i have a home gym and uh and i i noticed that sometimes like it would be easy to neglect going there um and so what i started doing is i just started putting my shoes in the gym

So I couldn't go put my shoes on unless I went to my gym first.

And then what started happening was like, well, I'm in the gym and I have my shoes on.

I should probably pick up something heavy.

The store can wait.

Again, it put me in a situation where it's easier to do the thing than to not do the thing.

You know, it's interesting too, because earlier we talked about identity level change being kind of a factor of like amassing evidence for being that new person.

I think you can actually build evidence in your environment as well.

Steven Pressfield, which you and I are both a big fan of, friend of the podcast.