To make progress and control your behavior, starve out negative influences and change your environment. You have the power to control every external variable and achieve the behavior you desire. Just like a horse can be made to drink water by starving and dehydrating it, you can starve out negative things in your life like alcohol, porn, and toxic friends. Changing your environment is the easiest way to do this, as shown by the Vietnam War example where soldiers who stopped heroin use when returning to the US. Recovery centers, on the other hand, have a high relapse rate because people return to the same environment where they engaged in negative habits.

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