Why is it hard for most people to eat healthy or get good sleep or even workout if ultimately this will be good for our health and survival ?
In: Biology
In the environment that we evolved, it was beneficial to our ancestors to make the most of any opportunities to
1) rest (be lazy)
2) eat high calorie foods (be greedy)
3) interact with social events (social media addiction)
4) have sex (sex/porn addiction)
I’m sure there’s many more I missed. Also we have found many ways to simulate the chemical changes in the brain that serve a purpose for survival, and the short term highs they give us can make us less motivated for long term changes.
It’s not that we aren’t good at forming habits. It’s more that the modern world, due to capitalist pursuit of satisfying consumers short term interests, has effectively hacked our programming to seduce us in just the right way to exploit our biological mechanisms.
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