You can become a different person doing this – Dan Ariely (defeat the negative habits)

and the reality is that when we study
honesty it’s not just about honesty – of
how we trade different human values with
each other and we have to trade them all
the time and what we find in general is
that we don’t always trade them in our
long-term best interests and often we
succumb to temptation and our trade
office is more influenced by what we can
rationalize then what is actually good
for us the easiest ones are of course
overeating and the saving not exercising
and you know you look like a very fit
person so you probably don’t indulge too
much but how much do you sleep like you
ask you ask people these questions when
in the last month have you over eaten
under exercise not saved enough then
sleep enough not always wash your hands
when you left the bathroom you you go
ahead and you’ll find something and and
there’s lots of things that we that we
do that is a irrational and you know
InStyle economics as this term reveals
preferences I said what do people want
let’s just see how they behave and the
way they behave means what they want but
if you look at how people behave it’s
inconsistent okay with what we what you
really want so so the reality is that
and this maybe has been one of the
biggest findings in social science of us
for the years over and over that the
environment matters the environment
matters you take a person and you put
them in one environment they behave one
way you take the same person you put
them in a different environment they
behave very differently if I woke you up
every morning to a buffet of doughnuts
and
fins and cross songs and the smell
filling your home you’ll be a different
person at the end of video right now I’m
not saying you’ll fail every day but
they’ll be a different person
so yeah the environment matters and the
thing about it is that it’s can’t both
good and bad on the good side it means
that we actually have power that there’s
a power of human free will but the power
is not even resisting the cooking it’s
not to expose yourself to it from the
beginning our power is to design our
environment in a different way right if
I came in tempted you all the time life
things be good but if you redesign your
environment you can live much better so
look at your your offices here right you
design it with a very specific idea in
mind once you design them in mind other
things follow right if you design it
very differently other things will
follow so human freedom really resides
in designing our environment it’s less
the good side the bad side is that we
often let other entities design our
environment
think about supermarket supermarket is
not something that we you and I design
for our own purposes
somebody else design it for their
purposes that’s right and they put
different things at eye level and they
put different things at the end of the
aisle they put different things when you
when you checkout and somebody has very
different going their goal by the way is
not your long-term well-being right so
so in one hand we have power by
designing our environment on the other
hand often somebody else has this power
and therefore they can manipulate us
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