Lewis Howes and a guest discuss why people struggle with diet and exercise despite wanting control. The guest argues that systems matter more than individual willpower: design systems that support people and most succeed, design them poorly and most fail.
But what about just personal authority over ourselves and saying, I'm going to take command over what I eat, and I'm going to take command over how much I move, rather than letting a system dictate what I can and can't do? And I understand it might be harder to do that, but why is that a struggle for so many people?
Yeah, I think it's a great question. I think that this is something that I think about a lot, and I think that we all make individual choices within systems, and so both are important. So you need individual choice is important, but the systems that surround them, I would argue, are more important. And Data would support me on that in that if you build a system for the most people to succeed, more people will succeed. Right. And if you build a system for the most people to fail, more people will fail.
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