it can be helpful if it’s a genuinely new possibility people haven’t heard of, but e.g. most people already “know” they “should” eat healthier, exercise more, etc. but they aren’t for actual good reasons, even if they don’t know what those reasons are
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repeating advice like “exercise more” this without engaging with the existing texture of a person’s reasons for not exercising can end up just reinforcing guilt and shame, which is the opposite of helpful
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anyway everyone should read Unlocking the Emotional Brain, and by everyone i mean people who know that they have patterns of behavior that were locked in by past emotional experiences and want a framework for understanding how various therapies unlock them
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It’s downstream. I was just thinking about this today. We want Y, which is concrete and observable, but Y is downstream from X, which is nebulous and difficult. Mostly we seem to ignore this and make people feel bad if they can’t swim upstream. I particularly see this in educatn.
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Ah the efficient market hypothesis to volition. Well if that's a thing I should do, why wouldn't I already do it! Right dude
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