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Self Sabotage Is Misfiring Self Protection
- Self-sabotage is actually a suboptimal form of self-protection driven by the brain's threat response.
- Achieving goals triggers anticipated losses and change, which unconscious systems interpret as threats and prompt protective sabotage.
Do A Cost Benefit Analysis On Harmful Habits
- Do a honest cost-benefit analysis to surface what you actually get from a harmful behavior before trying to stop it.
- Britt Frank insists the benefit column is never blank and naming those gains points to healthier replacements.
Gary Hart Example Of Ambivalence Not Malice
- Michael Kavnath recalls Gary Hart's affair as an example people labeled 'self-sabotage' despite clear incentives to succeed.
- Britt Frank suggests such patterns signal ambivalence and complex personal dynamics, not pure malice.