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248: Earning esteem, feeling pride, and self-improvement

Beat Your Genes Podcast

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Why People Are Sucked Into the Pleasure Trap

Self esteem is a moral judgment that your internal audience passes on you about when it observes your effort with respect to any worth while goal. The reason why people are sucked into the pleasure trap is because it's the pleasure trap. It's the hyper activation of pleasure pathways, artificially by modern stimuli. So don't expect that it's going to be easy, and don't expect anybody to hold your hand like you just got to tough it out. But if you're certainly capable of doing it, it's just motor cntrol at the end of your finger. And what i want to argue is that a big price that youre ang that you are generally unconscious of is the internal audience's

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