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“Mutual admiration society” used to be a disparaging phrase, but today’s young adults grew up with it as the social norm.
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It takes real self-discipline to inject yourself with heroin the first time. Teenagers will disregard everything—their own fears, their parents’ warnings, physical pain, the possibility of going to jail or dying—because they’re convinced that social acceptance requires them not only to take risks but to do so in a cool, seemingly unconcerned manner.
Being able to resist short-term temptations in favor of long-term payoffs is the secret not just to wealth but to civilization itself. It took singular willpower for the first farmers to go out and plant seeds instead of treating themselves to an immediate meal.
For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too
many of them. We make daily to-do lists that couldn’t be accomplished
even if there were no interruptions during the day, which there always are.
Even someone as preternaturally disciplined as Barack Obama can’t avoid
stray impulses to smoke a cigarette. What he can control is how he reacts:
Does he ignore the impulse, or chew a Nicorette, or sneak out for a smoke?
(He has usually avoided lighting up, according to the White House, but
there have been slips.)