Taming Your Animal

Something that I think gets overlooked is how much “willpower” people believe they truly have.

Your behavior is 90+ % habitual and environmental.

That means you do things based on habit, and the environment you’re in.

Most people thing they can just force themselves to get shit done and take actions…

but the reality of it all is this:

you’re only as good as the guardrails you put up for yourself.

Let’s talk about it…

The Dog and The Bone Delimna

Imagine you have a well-trained dog.

He doesn’t destroy the couches, he sits when you say sit, etc…

Now Imagine you leave that dog alone in a room with a freshly seared, beautifully seasoned, mouth-watering steak…

And a bowl of kibbles and bits.

You explicitly tell the dog NO to the steak and he cant eat it.

Then you leave for 24 hours.

What will you find 10/10 once you get back?

The steak is devoured.

Not because the dog was a ‘bad’ dog…

But because you left temptation in front of an animal, and the animal can only say no for so long.

So Why Does This Matter?

Well it’s simple.

If you want to change your behaviors you need to forcefully engineer and create environments.

If you want to read more, delete all apps on your home screen but the books app.

If you want to get more work done, forcefully bore yourself to death with social media blockers (techlockdown.com is the absolute best productivity app on the planet. You can block sites, search terms, IMAGES, YT thumbnails, and the system is nearly impossible to circumvent and turn off with the “accountability partner option” )

we’re all animals at the end of the day

And the only way to get there results you want to treat yourself as such and understand the underlying reasons behind your behavior.

For example, right now i’m getting the most work done i’ve ever gotten done in my life.

I’m in the middle of a deep dopamine detox (no notifications, social media, images, or music)…

And I find it easier to slip into doing hyper-positive habits like meditating, reading (literally knocked out 2 books last night ), writing copy, etc.

That’s it for this email.

See you on the next one.

( p.s if you need some help setting up techlockdown, just respond to this email, i’ll send some stuff over )