PsycHacks
PsycHacks
Orion Taraban
Episode 41: Roads only go where they go
3 minutes Posted Sep 25, 2021 at 3:01 pm.
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In the moment before deciding to relapse into a bad habit, most people generally endorse some variant of the belief that "this time it will be different." No it won't. You've been down that road before -- hundreds, if not thousands, of times -- and you know where it takes you. That's because roads only go where they go. It's impossible for a fixed pathway to vary with respect to its destination. Pushing back against this irrational belief will significantly improve your chances of lasting behavioral change.