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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
O.o
why you spend so much time defending the view that you are weak weakling?
world would be much worse place if people started saying "we CAIN'T, JUST CAN'T, CAN'T YOU SEE WE CAN'T" as soon as they gotten intelligent. We'd be still in caves, cause will power to do something more doesn't work and we can't do big things...
No, I don't get you. Especially since you proven to be driven and to have some willpower.
I know it's not sciency for you enough... but human mind is strong. Saying you CAN is as strong as saying you CAN'T.
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I am not a weak weakling - I am someone who chooses smart choices over brute force. Willpower is brute force. I as you say have some of it, but I try to limit its application. Sure, I clean the kitty litter, do a boring job, perform Kegel exercises that I do not like doing - that is all willpower. Moderate amount of it. But I do not persevere through cold water when there is warm water available - in that, I am a hedonist rather than masochist. I like my warm water and am looking forward to swimming in it soon and regularly.
People do big things because they design smart solutions. Scalable solutions. You bring an example of caves, but I do not see it as valid. The progress of civilization has been in a large part due to smart solutions, such as the discovery of fire and the vastly larger range of edible foods through heated food prep that was enabled by the discovery of fire. Sure, to keep the fire up you need self-discipline, but the discovery is a smart solution rather than application of willpower. There have always been sweatshops, from the Egyptian pyramids through the modern age Chinese factories producing iPhones; that is willpower of slaves at work. But each breakthrough, including the invention of said iPhones is a combination of luck, serendipity, being smart, and only some willpower.
And I still have not seen the definition of "disordered eating". Nor have I seen you explain why so many employees of a premier Silicon Valley tech company do not exercise when given an opportunity and despite (obviously due to their high level of education and access to the Internet) being informed of the crucial benefits of exercise. Could you explain it? You have many general ideas, which is definitely great, but when I ask
specific targeted questions, would you please attempt to answer them? I hope this is not asking too much.