operate in the world mostly on autopilot, doing the same things today that didn’t work yesterday. One would think that a process of learning or maturation would cause us to alter our behavior in response to unpleasant consequences. Anyone who has watched an average golfer play knows that this is not true. In fact, it sometimes seems that we are so trapped in ineffectual life patterns that we are playing out the old military adage: If it doesn’t work, double it. The motivations and habit patterns that underlie most of our behavior are seldom logical; we are much more often driven by impulses,
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