> understood through the lens of “intrapersonal bargaining"
This comic regarding willpower and "intrapersonal" messages is highly relevant here:
This comic regarding willpower and "intrapersonal" messages is highly relevant here:
> If it was you who decided there would be no conflict, for a thing cannot be in conflict with itself, such is a contradiction.
What? Of course you can be in conflict with yourself. People have mixed feelings and conflicting desires constantly. Different parts of our mind can want different things. Is the author a robot or something, to have never experienced this?
> Remember indeed, but not a decision! You simply had a thought, and an empty thought at that! You stood there like a fool and declared you would no longer smoke, and then what? And then nothing!
First off, what does the author think a decision, is, exactly? Most decisions aren't things that are acted upon immediately after the decision is made.
Secondly, the thing in question is the stopping of an addictive habit. By definition, quitting smoking literally IS doing nothing.
> And this is what you need, Sanus, to quit smoking: You need obedience, not will!
I thought it was obvious that willpower IS obedience, obedience to yourself, or rather the wiser part of yourself, the part that isn't focused on base or shallow urges.