Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

Longevity isn’t just about living longer. It’s about living with more energy, purpose, and peace. ⁠

31 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short monologue (from Fleet Maull) about self-limiting behaviors: their origins in deep conditioning, their functional role as (imperfect) solutions, and how change requires first establishing safety in the body, exploring the underlying drivers, and then creating new behaviors. The piece frames behavior change as understanding and working with underlying needs rather than simply suppressing actions.

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What I wish everyone knew about self limiting behaviors is that everyone's got them. They serve a purpose. They come from a very deep place of conditioning within us, and they can be overcome, they can be changed. But first we need to bring safety to the body. We have to get intimate with these behaviors, perhaps even study them a little bit, and recognize what's really underneath the behavior. Because the behavior is not the problem, the behavior is actually the solution. It's just maybe not a very good one. And so once we get underneath that, understand what is really driving that behavior, then we can understand what we need to do to work with it so that we can set up new behaviors. This becomes, I think, the central thesis around any behavior that we're trying to modify or replace.