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Lashing Yourself to the Mast

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Is There a Limitation to Commitment Devices?

A commitment device obviously relies on external factors to motivate or to constrain our behavior. But concern is, you know, if those external factors go away, are we then more vulnerable? Because we haven't linked that desired behavior to anything like really internally meaningful to us. If you never take the time to delve into the feelings or the emotions or the beliefs that are holding you back from adhering to your plans alone, just from your own volition, you'll never move past this barrier.

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