Why You Don't Do What You Said You'd Do

0:00Why people don't do the stuff they said they should do. Um because they have a reinforcing contingency that is short-term that is more reinforcing than doing the thing they think they should do. Long-term you solve that by taking actions and then once you take those actions, creating a label for that pattern of behavior that you would then call an identity. So, we basically create an identity that says, "I am organized." And so, you do some sort of organizational activity and then you say, "I am organized." And as a result of being organized, I now behave in this way on a consistent basis because it is more reinforcing to be consistent with that identity, that label that I've given myself which I've deemed as good uh than it is to not do it. And so, then that is how those those cycles or those patterns get created. And so, almost all of these things always have to start with some sort of behavior. I would say that often times when we're younger, we do something, then someone says, "You must be organized." We associate it with something good, and then we repeat that behavior in the future. And so, I think when we're adults, we basically have to do that for ourselves um otherwise we stay stuck in basically short-term thinking and short-term behaviors which ultimately yield short-term

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