whooo_me

whooo_me t1_j6iemuq wrote

Reply to comment by hosehoseee in Barbra Streisand (1970s) by ShoKKa_

It’s like…. In trying to hide the boobies, the hands are actually just drawing more attention to the boobies.

What could we call that… the Barbara Effect maybe……..

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whooo_me t1_j3r1m3s wrote

Reply to We often confuse the urge to procrastinate with the act of procrastinating [Discussion] by monegerie

Yeah, I agree.

My feeling is this: people tend to compulsively do things that make us feel good about ourselves, and compulsively avoid things that make us feel bad about ourselves.

Generally, that's ok. But in many scenarios there are things that straddle that divide which cause huge issues. Things which make us feel good (alcohol/substance abuse, excessive gambling) but are bad for us, and things which can make us feel bad (going to the gym, starting a hobby, starting dating again) but are good for us.

It's because of those compulsions, that I'm very wary of any "Just get off the sofa and do it" lines. If you manage to drag yourself down to the gym, that's good. But that negative compulsion could still be nagging away "I feel terrible". "I look terrible". "Everyone's laughing at me". "I'll never keep this up, I always quit!". Going to the gym will still be a negative experience and so you'll be constantly pushing back against it.

In order to change behaviour, that's the key thing we have to change: we have to make the change a positive experience. Not "if I keep this up for a year I'll be able to run a marathon", but "this one act today is fun/positive/progress and makes me feel good". You went to the gym for 30 minutes one day? Fantastic! You wrote a single paragraph of a book, or even just wrote out the names of the characters? Brilliant.

If you can turn those small, immediate acts into positive experiences, you won't have to worry about discipline and motivation, as you'll start to do them compulsively.

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whooo_me t1_iy39hna wrote

Reply to TIL after her death, Mercy Brown's heart and liver were burned and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn't; he died two months later. by NightVisible3767

Ok... but - bear with me here - what if we now drink the brother's pancreas through a straw, then inhale their diced gall-bladders through our left nostril???

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