The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How to encode better choices.

Quick check-in.

What's the hardest habit you've had to break in going primal?

Anything you're currently looking to change?

What have been the challenges?

While I don't consider primal living particularly difficult,

I think any behavioral shift can be tricky.

It's human nature to stick with what's known.

There's a certain comfort in routine, however ill-advised our customary patterns are.

And let's face it, some habits stick more than others.

If only we were a more logical species, we might imagine, one able to simply encode the choices

we know are good for us.

Thankfully, our psychological blueprints are more complex than our gadgets, but that

doesn't mean we can't optimize our settings and establish some tactical redirects.

I'll admit I have my own whenever I scenarios, those situations for which I've

established go-to strategies that help me stick with the healthy choice I've made for myself.

At this point, the substitution has become pretty automatic for me. If this impulse, then that

response. The automation makes life easier. It spares me the energy and

hand-wringing that would otherwise go into fending off the original inclination or wondering in the

moment what I should do to get my mind off of it. The Anatomy of Human Decision-Making. Not surprisingly,

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