Why is it that you tend to justify your bad behaviors?

Why is it that you can be making a ton of progress in your relationship with quitting pornography,

eating healthy, not overspending?

You can be making all this progress, right? And you're eating clean,

you're working out, you're sticking to your routine and your plan. And then almost out of nowhere

and without thinking, you break the trend. You snap at your significant other. You skip the thing

that you promised that you were going to do, you kind of, you take a

dump on the project at work, not actually, but figuratively and metaphorically. Or you, you know,

end the day with eating complete garbage at night, washing away the dave's worth of really clean

eating. A lot of men will look at this and they will say,

there's something wrong with me. This reinforces that I'm broken, there's something flawed in me,

there's some type of weakness when it's actually not that. There's a very specific psychological

phenomenon that is at play that has to do with your self-worth and self-perception. I'm going to dive into what

that is. I'm going to explain what it is, how it works, the specific cycles of it, and how you can

break free from it. So let's dive in. As always, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, end the

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So if you like this, make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell notification. Okay. So what are

we talking about here? We are talking about a concept

called moral licensing. Moral licensing is at cause or behind pulling the strings this justification

of your bad behaviors. Now, what is moral licensing? Well, it's a psychological phenomenon

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