Andy_McKenzie comments on 2015 New Years Resolution Thread - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Andy_McKenzie 24 December 2014 10:16PM

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Comment author: L29Ah 25 December 2014 03:20:24PM 2 points [-]

I'm going to stop making new years resolutions and stop behaving like i need to "overcome" myself in favour of some poorly explored goals and social stimuli.

Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 25 December 2014 04:49:21PM 1 point [-]

This is interesting but I don't fully understand what you're trying to trying to get across. Explain further? Ie what does it mean to overcome yourself?

Comment author: L29Ah 26 December 2014 05:40:37PM 1 point [-]

I often try to persuade myself i'll change some part of my behaviour at some peculiar point of time instead of researching why i still haven't done this. By "overcoming myself" i mean modifying the behaviour one part of me doesn't like in favour of some other behaviour some other part of me doesn't like.