How To Change Oneself:
Why Rational Control Fails and Emotional Understanding Works
Abstract
At first glance, personal change appears straightforward: identify an unwanted behavior, decide to act differently, and implement the new behavior....
yeah this feels important; my guess is there's an awkward adjustment time as we unlearn old bad habits; eventually we'll train ourselves to be able to pump out responses like we would if we were on the phone. I'm still working on this......
I usually am thinking about this at the personal level, where we-as-individuals often need to feel the pain of the current way of being enough that it’s too painful not to take the leap of faith into the new way....