Jay Shaw argues that changing habits without changing identity is futile. He uses a freezer analogy: behavior is water, but your identity is the temperature that determines its state. New routines always revert unless you reset your identity itself, not just add discipline.
30 days in, then you snap right back. That's because behavior is water. Identity is temperature. You can pour hot water into a freezer all you want— new routine, new alarm, new diet— but the freezer doesn't care what you poured in. It returns everything to the temperature that it was set at. New behavior on an old identity is a longer runway to the same landing. That's not failure, that's refrigeration. You don't need more discipline. You need a different setting. What if you restarted more than 3 times?
