What numeric split between habitual tendency and willpower does the speaker state?

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The Difficult Journey of Overcoming Pornography Addiction

21 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Anne Truong MD (uploaded Feb 21, 2023) discussing the challenges of overcoming pornography addiction. The speaker emphasizes the brain's resistance to change, claiming roughly 95% of the brain favors habitual behavior while only about 5% exerts willpower to change, and explains why breaking boundaries is difficult.

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95% habitual tendency versus 5% willpower.

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You know, your brain 95% of the time wants a stay to do the same thing over and over. Your brain doesn't like change. It's only 5. You want change. It's only 5% of your brain that have to will the other 95% to say, I'm changing this. So you're actually in a very small minority when you want change. But there's that willpower and said, I'm, I'm going to control this 95% of my brain. Because your brain is also always wired to protect you, to put you in the most comfortable place. So when you try to get out of your boundaries, that's why it's so hard.