Why You Should Fight Your Compulsions
May 23, 2011 by Kevin Michael Gray
Whatever You Feel Compelled to Do, Don't
Remember the last time you pushed the "send" button for an email and then instantly regretted it? Or snapped at someone in a moment of frustration?
It's easy to recite the litany of all we do wrong in our lives — eat and drink too much, exercise and sleep too little, spend too much on things we don't need and run up too much debt, judge others too quickly and embrace them too conditionally, profligately consume resources and spend too much time obsessing about our own needs and too little focused on the needs of others.
We know better. We're capable of better. So why exactly do we make so many short-sighted destructive choices? READ THE FULL ARTICLE
