Hi Sam, love your articles. It struck me as I was reading your analogy of forming new habits, that you're omitting something uniquely human: the quality of their living, of their way of being, that is improved. I think it'd be a stretch but I guess you might call it less "effort" to live with more quality -- a more congruent-to-my-values kind of life takes less "effort" in some ways. But what about beauty?? It's not strictly "effort" that's at stake here, at least for new habits and for quality of life.
Hi Sam, love your articles. It struck me as I was reading your analogy of forming new habits, that you're omitting something uniquely human: the quality of their living, of their way of being, that is improved. I think it'd be a stretch but I guess you might call it less "effort" to live with more quality -- a more congruent-to-my-values kind of life takes less "effort" in some ways. But what about beauty?? It's not strictly "effort" that's at stake here, at least for new habits and for quality of life.
I think that’s very valid. I was being a bit more mechanistic. In some sense, “beauty” can have very high value, and change the equation accordingly.