More important than having a list of things you can do is having a resource of things you should know. We all know we should eat better and exercise more, but we don't. Every self-help book is filled with things we already know, and they are generally good tips, but they tend to give you tricks to overcome other temptations. These tricks can be helpful but in the long run they often fail.
Here I'll show you the basis for those tricks, I'll show you why they work and why they fail. Once you know this you will be able to set and stick to any goal with a higher likelihood of success.
- The time frame (short term or long term outlook) is the most important aspect of these predictions but we flip back and forth constantly without realizing it.
- The devil and angel on your shoulders (and the person behind the curtain) are more real than you realize.
- And they have different priorities, one is for the short term (the one that can't talk, the 'devil') and one looking at the long term, (the you, you identify with, the angel, the best intentions person you are).
- What really drives you is not rewards but the promise of rewards, it might not seem like a difference but it has huge consequences, you can end up chasing empty promises if you don't realize what's happening.
- Emotions play a greater role in the data collection than we realize, they are the way the autopilot bookmarks things that seem important.
- As mentioned above, the nervous system that is filtering all of the information coming at us through our senses acts fast and can't process words, so what does it do ... it communicates through things like 'gut feelings'.
​- Emotions are like our 6th sense, they are signals from our automatic system alerting us of something.
- How to use the knowledge from above to navigate the self-help world and the tricks you can use to follow through on your good intentions i.e. To help you be the person you want to be, so to say.
After knowing 'why you do what you do' I'll cover external things you should know about.
- Why it seems that everything that tastes good is bad for you, and why everything you seem to want to buy has a petition against it claiming it will cause the end of the world?