dives into the economic concept of the Ulysses pact: “when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness.”
In the excellent book Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke dives into the Ulysses pact on the individual behavioral level, calling it “self-binding”.
#AskFedi Curious to hear your self-binding strategies? I’ll share mine (in reply)
@ethanjstark@pluralistic I put all kinds of blocks and limits on social media, I don’t have cigarettes at home, I won over nail biting by filing my nails perfectly smooth, to hack the moment where I unconsciously look for a sharp edge. I think of all these as kind of life hacks!
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