That’s A Lesson We Can All Learn:

When People Are In Severe Pain, There's An Expression, You're A "pain Person," And What That Means Is That Nothing Else Matters.

You Can Think About Life As A Battle Between You And A Doughnut Shop. The Doughnut Shop Wants You To Eat Another Doughnut And Pay The Money, And You Want To Do It In The Short Term, But In The Long Term It's Not Good For You Either Financially Or From A Health Perspective.

Dishonesty Is All About The Small Acts We Can Take And Then Think, 'no, This Not Real Cheating.' So If You Think That The Main Mechanism Is Rationalization, Then What You Come Up With, And That's What We Find, Is That We're Basically Trying To Balance Feeling Good About Ourselves.

We Are All Far Less Rational In Our Decision-making Than Standard Economic Theory Assumes. Our Irrational Behaviors Are Neither Random Nor Senseless: They Are Systematic And Predictable. We All Make The Same Types Of Mistakes Over And Over, Because Of The Basic Wiring Of Our Brains.

The People Who Need To Overcome Temptation To The Highest Degree Have The Hardest Time Doing It.