My wife, but she’s the best thing to happen to me every year ♥️

That is honestly a pretty incredible outcome. Cannabinoids only help me control my anxiety, they’ve never gotten rid of it like that. I know what you mean though, I have been hypomanic and feel strongly that I wouldn’t have taken the plunge with my first business without that.

It doesn’t change that it was mental illness though, and I’m better off not being that way. I think you’re probably better off without your anxiety. You talk about pursuing success; a lot of people - mostly in their 30s and up I’ll admit - would class “being able to sit with a beverage and enjoy life regardless of income” as the definition of success.

On the other hand, is your anxiety really gone? Or is it still there, as part of why you procrastinate? If your panic coping mechanism is gone and can’t compensate for procrastination anymore, maybe it’s time to try and figure out why you procrastinate instead of just doing the thing and then getting back to your beverage and chair?

And emergency sirens of any kind. The number of times a track has had me looking for flashing lights while I’m driving is too goddamn high.

Hmm, okay, that’s not really what your “loose theory” above posited though:

I have a loose theory that the idea of habit formation only came about with trying to make a productive worker

So based on your latest reply, it seems like you’re not really looking for when habits formed in humans, but rather how modern styles of government have changed the habits we form and why they had that impact. (Or modern social systems, if you prefer that to “government”, since government has kinda fucked up every system we’ve tried so far)

It’s an interesting question! Just be careful to state what you mean, because clarification can look like shifting the goalposts. Also stay vigilant against confirmation bias, which is peeking through a little in your original post; make sure you’re not just looking for evidence that fits your notion.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6701929/

Creatures of Habit: The Neuroscience of Habit and Purposeful Behavior

Habits serve a critical purpose in making our behavior more efficient, reducing the decision burden we face each day and freeing up mental energy for more demanding tasks

This makes sense, because the brain already uses ~20% of our calorie intake as it is; reducing unnecessary use of it would have been an evolutionary pressure.

A good way to approach questions like this is to look at the behaviour in things other than humans, and compare. For example, I googled (searched, actually; DDG’d specifically) “habit formation in animals”; no corporate overlords, so if they form habits there must be something else to it.

Not at all. I said that now this has happened, the humans actually in charge of the decisions which inspired it might adjust their cost/benefit calculations. I didn’t say it was right, I said it’s understandable why people would celebrate it and I said there’s a chance it will have an actual impact.

I’ll leave you and your straw man to discuss further; you’ve got more of an argument with him than you do with me.

Maybe. You seem to be very certain about how each of these individuals thinks, which is not a level of confidence I often reach with my own opinions.

If it was a random death you might have a point. I would still say it makes sense that people would celebrate the death of a villain, but that’s beside the point.

This was an assassination, a message on its own even if there weren’t literal words carved into the casings. This may well give a person about to make an inhumane decision on behalf of a company’s bottom line pause. It’s a reminder that those decisions have real consequences, even if not always legal ones.

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