Nick Perry argues that your environment shapes behavior more than willpower does. He uses the metaphor "you can't be cold in hell" to show how context makes certain actions inevitable: a coach's presence makes you work out, a structured gym makes exercise automatic. Redesign your surroundings instead of relying on discipline.
You'll never be successful if you don't understand that you can't be cold in hell. Here's what that means. If you go to the movie theaters, you're going to watch a movie. If you go to the gym, you're probably going to sway. And if you go to the grocery store, you're probably more likely to eat at home. Look, most people want to focus on the actions, like scheduling their calendars, making the checklists, and doing the cold plunges, when they can automate all that just by tweaking their environment to be in alignment with their actions. Like, why do you think that it's hard to miss workouts if you show up with a coach? So remember,
