2647: Think of Your Choices as Effects, Not Causes by David Cain

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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David Cain of Raptitude gives you a new way of thinking about your choices Episode 2647: Think of Your Choices as Effects, Not Causes by David Cain David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/02/choices-are-effects/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2647.
0:04.1	Think of your choices as effects, not causes by David Cain of Raptor2.com and I'm Justin
0:10.0	Malik.
0:11.0	Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, OLD or Old, the show where I read to you from articles
0:15.5	that I think are amazing with permission from the authors.
0:18.7	So with that, let's get right to the post as we optimize your life.
0:26.8	Think of your choices as effects, not causes by David Cain of Raptor2.com.
0:33.8	Imagine for a moment that you could see your own life from above, as though your home,
0:38.8	neighborhood, and workplace were little dioramas with open roofs.
0:44.1	Your miniature self isn't aware you're watching and exhibits all the habits you do.
0:49.0	With a kind of embarrassed concern, you watch your hapless self wake up, hit snooze a few
0:54.4	times, then sit up and read Reddit on your phone for 20 minutes or whatever you normally
0:59.5	do.
1:00.6	You watch as you interact with the world, making some good decisions and some bad ones.
1:06.8	You learn a lot about yourself just from seeing your everyday behavior from the outside.
1:12.3	How much time you actually spend staring at electronic devices, how you're more argumentative
1:17.7	than you thought, how often you cut your workouts short so you can get on with lunch, how
1:23.0	you almost never clean behind the couch.
1:26.0	Now, imagine you could intervene in subtle ways, not by making choices for your mini-self,
1:32.4	but by changing the surrounding environment.
1:34.8	You could move an object in a room your mini-self will visit later, maybe putting a bag of
1:39.5	cookies in the cupboard that would otherwise be sitting out when you get home from work.
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