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Six Pillar Series – Mindset Optimization #305

Muscle Intelligence

CHAPTER

The Reversal of Desire

Until I met Phil, I thought traditional psychology was premised on a false premise. And the false premise was that in order to overcome problems, you have to dive deeply into what caused the problem. Even if you do understand it, that's not actually going to solve the problem for you. What you need are forces that don't feel like they're available to you when you're experiencing the problem. That gets us to the problem of avoidance. When you're afraid to do something, or when you can't get yourself to, you can't discipline yourself to sit down and write... We all avoid a wide, wide variety of things because we're lazy.

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