you know the way we form memories is by adding connections and so the more times that you perform

behaviors you want to perform the more connections you create that make it easier to perform that

behavior again in the future and we just have so we have to perform that behavior again in the future.

And we just have to recognize that a lot of what we're trying to do is to find ways to do the right thing in the

context in which we want to do it and to help ourselves not to do the wrong thing.

In general, I think it's easier to rewire that GO system than the stop system.

I think the stop system can get a little bit stronger with

practice but if you just like in a car you don't want to ride the brakes I

think it's a bad attempt at behavior change to try to ride the brakes there too, which means that it's really important

when you identify the thing you're trying to change to frame it in a positive way, not positive

as in peppy, but positive as in these are the actions I want to perform

rather than things I don't want to perform so you shouldn't say I want to check my

email less often you want to say every morning when I come into work I'm going to check my

email for 10 minutes and then do an hour's worth of work before I launch my

email program again.

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