Top pupils quit their post-school projects because they don't have teachers standing over them offering gold stars and punishments. They're so resigned to extrinsic motivation that it takes years to rediscover the creative, inner self: the guy that, without setting any goals, enjoyed lego and learning to speak english.
I think the old idea that gluttony is a carnal desire is false.
The cravings are a mental phenomenon. The mind seeks to be distracted and regards the mouth and tastebuds as an entertainment system. (A sort of lower level alternative to reading aggregator sites.)
Being too full is actually uncomfortable to the body, although one may not notice it initially due to the eating high.
It seems pretty logical to me that one can't have good days without occasionally having bad days.
A flaw in American culture seems to be that negative feelings simply aren't acceptable: to anybody. Looking for reasons to be unhappy would be silly, but negative feelings do have to be safely processed and diffused.
The alternative is the observed rise in mental disorder and use of anti-depressants.
Top pupils quit their post-school projects because they don't have teachers standing over them offering gold stars and punishments. They're so resigned to extrinsic motivation that it takes years to rediscover the creative, inner self: the guy that, without setting any goals, enjoyed lego and learning to speak english.