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Is it bad to coerce yourself to do unpleasant things? (with Matt Goldenberg)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Non-Sustainable Mindset of Self-Coercion

The idea is that if we can make it more painful to not work than to work, then we can get ourselves to work. But once you start working, the shame and guilt and all those things don't make sense anymore. So then you have to build it back up over time in order to get that need met.

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