Mark Manson

Like there are gonna be days, no matter how well your environment's set up, no matter how many nudges and like,

how much friction you remove from whatever your goal is, there are going to be days where you're like, I really don't want to do this.

Right.

And that's the moment where willpower kicks in.

Right.

And it's like, okay, I have to like maintain consistency here.

So it does have a place, but like the goal should be to use it as sparingly as possible.

That's a good way to go about it too.

And this is something James talks about a lot too, right?

He says that you don't rise to the level of your goals.

He says you sink to the level of your systems.

Generally speaking, in that moment when you are super motivated,

yes, that effort is better channeled into building a system that is gonna make the behavior inevitable rather than just doing the behavior a lot for a short period of time.

Well, and there are ways to make the willpower

work for you a little bit, right?

So one of the things we haven't talked about yet is social pressure, like the positivity of social pressure, right?

So like you go to CrossFit, like one of the powerful things about CrossFit is that it leverages social pressure to make you work out harder, right?

They put you in teams and you like go for PRs and you compete against each other and it's super fun, right?

So you get these amazing workouts because you're surrounded by people that you're gonna feel like a dick if you're the one slacking.

You wouldn't have.