What lands so clearly is that “failure to change” isn’t a willpower issue — it’s biology.
When the nervous system is depleted, identity defends the familiar the same way metabolism defends a set point. The body reads growth as danger.
Your SET → BET model makes that visible. Stories, emotions, and self-talk shape the hormonal and neurological climate people are trying to change inside.
Brilliant reframe of why behavioral interventions fail. The homeostatic paralel to metabolism is spot-on, treating identity like it has a setpoint explains the compensatory pullback most practitioners attribute to lack of discipline. The neuroplastic state access point is the key piece tho, willpower wont override limbic defensiveness, but alpha/theta access might actualy rewire the narrative loop.
What lands so clearly is that “failure to change” isn’t a willpower issue — it’s biology.
When the nervous system is depleted, identity defends the familiar the same way metabolism defends a set point. The body reads growth as danger.
Your SET → BET model makes that visible. Stories, emotions, and self-talk shape the hormonal and neurological climate people are trying to change inside.
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Brilliant reframe of why behavioral interventions fail. The homeostatic paralel to metabolism is spot-on, treating identity like it has a setpoint explains the compensatory pullback most practitioners attribute to lack of discipline. The neuroplastic state access point is the key piece tho, willpower wont override limbic defensiveness, but alpha/theta access might actualy rewire the narrative loop.
Yes exactly. Thank you for taking the time to read