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The Myth of Grit and Determination
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The difficulty of behavioral goals
Behavioral goals are hard to reach because they usually roll around conflicting desires.
Something in you wants to achieve the goal, while something else in you wants to undermine it.
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Grit, determination and victory
The traditional approach to goal accomplishment revolves around the idea of winning most of our inner conflicts. Grit and determination are emphasized as the keys to victory and the positive side should always win.
This approach assumes that there is within us a stockpile of willpower that gives us the power we need to act constantly toward our long-term interests; if we can’t seem to do that, the failing is as much a moral one as a practical one.
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Conventional striving doesn't always work
Striving isn’t the only strategy when it come to reaching your goals.
Try tracking your behavior without particularly striving to change it. This way, you commit only to tracking the relevant numbers (money spent, calories consumed, miles walked, pages read/written, etc.)
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- Monitoring the quality of one’s input.
- Pushing yourself for some exercise, which is sure to beat the blues.
- Reading actual paper newspapers instead of mobile phone articles.
- More fresh food, less processed food.
- Working with work clothes on, not pajamas.
- Bringing a change in routine and scenery.
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- You do a lot of cardio.
- You have been on a caloric deficit for months.
- Your diet is extremely restrictive.
- You target a low amount of calories on a daily basi...
Go easy on the cardio
Cardio doesn't always necessarily lead to excess hunger or binging.
Some people are more sensitive to large quantities of cardio and are more binge-prone than others. Reducing the amount of cardio lessens the urge to binge or makes it disappear altogether.
Increase your total calories
Binge eaters tend to aggressively cut calories while leaning on willpower to deal with hunger and lack of energy.
But willpower is limited, so this strategy will backfire.
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When You Don't Know What's Wrong
Solving a problem is very difficult when its cause is hard to trace. You can’t isolate the trouble the same way you would dunk a leaky inner tube into a bathtub to see where the bubbles come out, for example.
What you can do is try to focus on better inputs: i.e, if you're struggling because of the pandemic and its social and health consequences, try pouring more vegetables, books, and exercise into the front end of the system, while reducing the intake of sugar, Netflix, and news.
Feel-good activities
There are 2 types of feel-better activities:
- Those that immediately improve your mood, but often at the expense of overall well-being. Easy to start doing, and often hard to stop, they tend not to have long-term rewards.
- Those are activities that improve your well-being, and your mood too, but usually not right away. You never regret these activities and they take effort.