Learned behavior is a wonderful thing because it makes life so much
easier. It helps you move through the day in a more efficient way
without having to waste mental energy on mundane daily tasks like
boiling water and brushing your teeth. You do them without even
thinking. But learned behavior that allows you to act without thinking is not such a good thing when it results in bad habits that become difficult and often impossible to break. For one thing, once a habit is established, you will never completely
"unlearn" it. You can stop overindulging, you can pointedly replace bad
habits with better ones, but every habit you've ever picked up is there,
somewhere in your neural
network, just waiting to be rediscovered. That's why, while it's not a
realistic immediate solution for most people, "just saying no" is your
best first defense when you finally start to get a bad habit under control.
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