But Suppose We Are Nothing More Than

You Can Think About Life As A Battle Between You And A Doughnut Shop. The Doughnut Shop Wants You To Eat Another Doughnut And Pay The Money, And You Want To Do It In The Short Term, But In The Long Term It's Not Good For You Either Financially Or From A Health Perspective.

It Is Helpful To Think Of People As Having Two Fundamental Motivations: The Desire To See Ourselves As Honest, Good People, And The Desire To Gain The Benefits That Come From Cheating - On Our Taxes Or On The Football Field.

We All Want Explanations For Why We Behave As We Do And For The Ways The World Around Us Functions. Even When Our Feeble Explanations Have Little To Do With Reality. We’re Storytelling Creatures By Nature, And We Tell Ourselves Story After Story Until We Come Up With An Explanation That We Like And That Sounds Reasonable Enough To Believe. And When The Story Portrays Us In A More Glowing And Positive Light, So Much The Better.

When You're In Pain, Tomorrow Doesn't Exist - Just The Pain - And The Only Thing That You Want In The World Is For It To Go Away.

Why Would You Take Money Out Of Your Paycheck At The Beginning Of The Month When You Don't Know How Much Money You'll Need?