the general problem i have with advice of the form “do this different thing” is that it consistently fails to respect the reasons why people are not already doing the different thing
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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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