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Who Should Read This
Anyone who:
- Has checked their phone “for just a second” and resurfaced 45 minutes later.
- Knows something is a bad habit but keeps doing it anyway.
- Has tried to quit a habit using sheer willpower and lost the arm-wrestling match.
- Would like to understand why their brain keeps pulling the same lever.
- Has ever stress-snacked, doom-scrolled, or procrastinated their way through anxiety.
- Suspects their habits are really just anxiety wearing a clever disguise.
- Wants to break habit loops without becoming a monk.
- Is curious why awareness works better than “just try harder.”
- Would like their brain to stop treating discomfort like a five-alarm fire.
- Has wondered why anxiety keeps recruiting them into the same behaviors.
To-Do
- Influenced Mental Models
- Resonating Quotes
- Book in Miranda-ese
- What problem this book helped me see — explained the way I’d tell a coworker over coffee.
- Ensure all linked mental models have applicable references to this resource.