identifying a self-control problem is only the first step

Page 169 keyword goal identifying a self-control problem is only the first step. You also need to exercise self-control. Self-control strategies counteract temptation and canceling out the influence of temptations on your goal. This works either by increasing your motivation to adhere to the goal or decreasing your motivation to give into the temptation. Some self-control strategies can also do both. The result of exercising self-control is that to our posing forces with similar motivational pull a goal and a temptation get further apart with the motivation to adhere to the goal getting significantly stronger than the motivation to give into the temptation.

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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