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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

ICYMI: Julia Galef

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Externalization in Behavior Change

The more you can externalize and automate these processes, the better they're going to work. The behavior that we unconsciously strive for is shaped in large parts by the social cues that we get from the other primates in our tribe basically. So that's one sort of external system that doesn't require as much constant effort. Another thing you can do is just set up the information that you're getting such that you'reGetting opposing perspectives that are interesting and more likely to challenge you in ways that you find pleasurable and not annoying.

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