Cached identities

Waterhouse, The Danaides (1903) James Clear talks about changing your identity as a way to change your habits. It s hard to eschew meat every time you go out to eat, but once you label yourself as someone who doesn t eat meat , and start to believe it, then it becomes easy not to order it. Identities let you precompute actions There are two reasons this is useful. One is that adopting an identity…