A weakness I've found in myself recently, as a correlation to my bitcoin-fostered frugality:
The temptation to make sub-optimal, short-term-pleasure-oriented decisions is much greater when said action is FREE, versus when it costs money. Sounds obvious I know, but hear out my elaboration.
A perfect example of this is the availability of carbs while on the #CarnivoreDiet.
It is SO easy, to the point of being automatic, for me to turn down carbs when I have to BUY them, no matter how cheap they are.
But when they are available for free, the temptation instantly becomes 5x greater. I have that inner value-seeker inside of me saying "Look at this amazing deal! It's FREE!!!" Just earlier today some friends in my hostel ordered a giant cheese pizza and offered me a couple slices. NGL it was painful to say no since I'm fasting right now and it looked so, so good. I saw the box just sitting there on the free shelf for 2 hours afterward and it made it significantly harder to focus on my work 🤣
...But there's literally a pizza place 2 buildings down from me where I could get all the pizza I wanted for just a couple bucks, and I have ZERO temptation to do that because of the MINISCULE amount of financial resistance between me and that vice.
Has anyone else noticed this same goofy mental trait in themselves, where their inner value-seeker creates an irrationally-large temptation difference when a high-time-preference indulgence is free as opposed to dirt cheap? #AskNostr
