It's easier to change one’s behavior than one's mind or one’s heart.
That’s what the ancient religious notion of obligation solves for. Agency or autonomy can’t jump-start the self when the engine is sputtering. Obligation can.
Should you wait to be perfect and then do the action? Obviously, you should not or you will do nothing. This is the premise of “M…
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