The article explores how both nature and nurture shape our habits, often leading to dissatisfaction and suffering. It highlights that our hard-wired desire for pleasant experiences clashes with reality, making acceptance difficult. Conditioning from childhood and societal norms fosters unreasonable expectations, resulting in harmful self-blame when dreams don't materialize. The author stresses that even deeply ingrained habits can be transformed, encouraging readers to acknowledge the inevitability of life's challenges and to foster resilience in the face of adversity.
This hard-wiring has its roots in early humankind's will to survive. It's difficult to overcome...but not impossible.
As for nurture, our psychological conditioning tends to distort what to expect in life, leading us to have unreasonable expectations.
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