Recently I'm often struck by how unaware people are of their cargo-culting.
Like, people do not realise when there is a cause and effect. And if you bring up a [cause] and [effect] they will say "you are confusing two separate things", as if they can merely fake the image of [effect] and that will be enough.
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And even worse, they consider their willpower to produce this [effect] a sign of their progression.
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"If you just force yourself to do Y enough times eventually it will become a habit."
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My point is that you need to find the underlying cause(s) and ensure you are incentivised long-term.
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And you should therefore try to explore and be inventive. So, for example, if you resolved to become vegan, you could choose to learn 30 new vegan recipes, and this would likely be better than using your willpower to cycle through the same 3 meals that you were already bored of.
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The underlying point of trying to find the "recipes" that enable the change you desire applies to many other non-dietary situations. And I think it's important: finding new ways of being/doing often requires experimentation if you wish to be successful.
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(It should be mentioned that my point about the magical belief that fakes will become real given enough time, is literally separate from my point about real outcomes needing recipes that we are correctly incentivised into following as much as whatever they substituted.)
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