Bryan Johnson· Author
Small amounts of friction can overcome temptations.
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Small amounts of friction can overcome temptations.
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There's a theory in cognitive science called Choice Architecture, which is the idea that you can design your environment to make good choices easier and bad choices harder.
rather than making it easy make it difficult so increase friction put more steps between you and the behavior