The introduction post is here.

This post illustrates the first of three techniques which, when used in conjunction, should whack you out of Akrasia.

The technique is called "stopping".

I must mention what this post definitely isn't. The wierdos of the world have built entire industries around the practice of deliberately doing ostensibly nothing. Monks in the Himalayas encourage you to sit still cross-legged while you perform their particular brand of vague mental hocus pocus. Grander fraudsters and/or wierdos will implore you to freeze suddenly in the middle of dancing in order to achieve congruence with the fourth way enneagram or something, a practice unceremoniously robbed from bored toddlers or Sufis. You don't really need to get weird or dramatic or mystical about it - your weightlifting instructor might ask you to painfully pause for a few moments at the bottom of a squat in order to make your [...]

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