Re:Ideas That Changed My Life
by mmcconnell1618 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:14PM
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Here's a good TED talk on behavioral change. Short answer is that knowledge doesn't change behaviors as you pointed out. Knowing the right thing to do and actually doing it are very different things.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_how_to_change_your_beha...
I think it is fair to accept the fact that we do _not_ have the full privileges of the system, and sometimes what we want to do gets overridden by other primal behaviors.