"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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To make sure that your idea holds water. You have heard of straw man fallacy, right?
There is a technique called Steel Man. This is where you imagine someone disagrees with you. So you build up the best possible versions of their argument. This helps to make sure your point is airtight.
I was reading some time back about weight loss. Apparently after 5 years only 3% of people who lose 50 lbs. or more will have kept it off. Most gain it back within 5 years. Many gain more back.
The 3% who keep it off work at it all the time. It is the primary focus of their life, or darned close to it.
So perhaps for someone to stop hoarding they would have to do the same thing, make it the primary focus of their life and work at it all the time.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
www.silententry.wordpress.com
you could also see gaining it back within 5 years as success, because if they hadn't lost the 50 lbs in the first place they may have continued gaining instead and be an ADDITIONAL 50 pounds up (or whatever maybe only an additional 20 pounds up). Since it's very easy to gain weight as one gets older, and most people do, maintaining is a sort of success. Losing the weight may have given them the leeway to at least maintain their pre-diet weight, even though they somewhat overate in order to gain it back of course.I was reading some time back about weight loss. Apparently after 5 years only 3% of people who lose 50 lbs. or more will have kept it off. Most gain it back within 5 years. Many gain more back.
Part of why people may gain weight as they age (beyond metabolism and blah blah blah) is IMO because they focus excessively on losing weight toward some ideal rather than just preventing weight gain and being satisfied with that. While if they actually manage to lose weight this gives them some leeway, if they don't it probably just diverts energy from a more helpful focus on maintaining. Hoarding also tends to get worse as one gets older of course.
Trees don't grow on money
UL, we are not all your projects, and we don't all need to be fixed by you.
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