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Dr. Nate Zinsser, Josh Peck, Annie Duke, Amy Morin, Paul Bloom, and Yung Pueblo on Building Better Habits
The Daily Stoic
The Short Shelf Life of Epiphanies
Addicts often respond well to catastrophic events that awaken them to the consequences of their actions./nThere is a critical crossroads moment where addicts must choose to seek help or continue down the path of addiction./nSome individuals may have these awakening moments periodically but fail to take action and instead double down on their destructive behaviors./nRealizing the truth of a situation may not be enough to bring about lasting change./nEpiphanies and breakthrough moments have a short shelf life and often expire, leading individuals to revert back to their old habits.
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we respond great to catastrophe. So your wife walks out on you, you lose your job you get a DUI it's it's like this this exogenous kind of um punch to the face of like wake the hell up look at what you are doing but it's short-lived and what you do in that moment is what is truly that crossroads moment there's like a saying where if a guy calls you who's drunk and has been drunk for a long time and ask for help, don't let him take a nap because he might rest up a bit and he might eat a sandwich and have a little bit of time go by and think, man, it wasn't that bad. people who have these moments every couple of years or what have you. And instead of taking action to maybe getting help, they double down on whatever got them there in the first place.
Speaker 1
Yeah. And it's not even just it's help. It's just like understanding the truth of it. Right. So like you, you know, you sacrifice for years and years, you know, to become a, let's say a Super Bowl winning coach and you've neglected your family, you've neglected your help, you've done all this stuff to get there. And then it's anticlimactic. There's this moment where you go, oh, it wasn't worth it. You know, like it wasn't what I thought it would be. And then, yeah, you go to sleep that night, then you party a couple of days and you wake up a week later that the, the, the breakthroughness of that epiphany, it has a short shelf life. And then it expires. And then you just go back to how you've always been. You don't make the change because you've lost. It's expired. It's moved on. You lost. The freshness of it wore off. And then you just go back to who you always were.
Speaker 2
Yeah, I've heard
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