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The System in Our Mind That Prevents Us From Taking Action
If you look at us from an evolutionary standpoint, we are the crowning achievement of evolution. But there's still a primitive system in place that is shared by many other living things on this planet. It causes us to automatically move in the direction of the least amount of pain and the most pleasure. That's what we do. We're kind of automatically inclined to do what we feel like doing and not do what we don't feel like doing.