Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by JoshFrets

“I’m not 100% sure if this is scientifically accurate, but the mental model is helpful regardless.”
It’s not 100% correct, but the reality is even more compelling. The other one doesn’t get de-myleinated, so it’s only weaker *relative* to the one you’ve reinforced––like habits, you don’t break them so much as displace them.

Far scarier is the “sled on a snowy hill” effect––how you perform the first few reps has an overwhelmingly larger chance of becoming your default, and requires far more e...