Like everyone else.

You sure have the answers, pal.

There was a guy named Jack Kerouac, among many.

One could literally see how it works for others.

Puzzled (but also fascinated) at your motivation to post ignorant and seemingly inflammatory comments like this. But, there's probably a CBT treatment for it, right? Please let us know how the treatment goes.

The meaning was that roughly two thirds of world's classic literature is about how people are capable to alter their life circumstances and conditioning.

There might be a legitimate question of which particular CBT is more efficient, but there is no question of whether or not it works.

Smart people usually bootstraping individual CBTs for themselves. Some, like Hermann Hesse, even wrote books about it.

One of the many mistakes you've made in your string of bad posting is the assumption that all brains behave the same. Another mistake is being histrionic as hell. Maybe you could CBT some of that away by not posting.

You mean the Jack Kerouac who ended up drinking himself to death? Perhaps the road trips did not cure all ails.

Consider the magnitude change his character had undergo after he left mom's basement in New York.

Kerouac himself was smart-enough to realize the dynamic and illusory nature of what we call "myself" (it was one of his main themes - unfolding of Cody and himself and of everything else) and that his alcoholism was the cause of his suffering.

Why he didn't choose to fight it is another question. Perhaps, it was too late.