CH4 License to sin：Why being good gives us permission to be bad
我们总是在做了一些好事或者进步了一点而给自己理由去做一点坏事或放纵，比如运动完了“奖励”自己一大瓶饮料和一大块芝士披萨，又或者只看到一件坏事的好的部分而说服自己去做，比如超市打折的时候总喜欢告诉你节约了多少钱，你每次只关注节约的数量，却忽略最根本的花费总额。还有一个典型的场景，总是跟自己说明天在做吧。假想明天的自己和今天不一样，而实际情况却是啪啪啪的打脸。
为什么会这样？还是人们的习惯性短视和贪图及时享乐（instant gratification）导致的，这会让我们忘了自己的目标是什么，从而偏离了轨道。所以要经常提醒自己，我的目标是什么？我现在离目标还有多远。
Trap1:Moral licensing trap:use “good” behavior to give yourself permission to do sth bad.
When gaining progress, indulge in something that be away from the long term goal.
solution1: Don’t mistake goal-supportive actions for the goal itself
ask yourself: How much progress you have made on your goal
Trap2:borrowing credit for tomorrow optimism licenses us to indulge today.
Solution2: reduce the variability in your behavior, not the behavior of yourself. Do I really want the consequence of putting off?
Trap3：Halo effect / What we want isn’t bad
solution3：When halo effect get in the way of your willpower challenge, look for the most concrete measure of whether a choice is consistent with your goals.
句子：
Virtue and vice
1 They simply let the glow of their earlier good behavior blind them to the harm of their decisions.
2. One step forward gives you permission to take two steps back
3 we wrongly but expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today.
4.When halo effect get in the way of your willpower challenge, look for the most concrete measure of whether a choice is consistent with your goals.
drain
self-control muscle exhausted, and their willpower drained.
原意指水流走了，brain drain 人才流失. 引申到人身上就是身体被掏空，很累
to make someone feel very tired and without any energy:
eg：Working with children all day really drains you.
strain
Then we strain our brains to explain why it must be immoral.
EFFORT [intransitive and transitive] to try very hard to do something using all your strength or ability
strain (something) to do something
She was straining to keep her head above the water.
strain for
Bill choked and gasped, straining for air.
strain your ears/eyes (=try very hard to hear or see)
I strained my ears, listening for any sound in the silence of the cave
License
Anything that make us feel warm and fuzzy about our virtue- even just thinking about doing something good- can license us to follow our impulses.
license 的动词用法 to give official permission for someone to do or produce something, or for an activity to take place
be licensed to do something
eg:a restaurant which is licensed to sell alcohol
The vaccine has been licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration
同义：= permit, accredit, allow, authorize, certify, empower, sanction, warrant
justify
The next time you find yourself using past good behavior to justify indulging, pause and remember the why
eg: We feel justified in putting it off.
splurge
I’ll splurge on holiday gifts, but then no more shopping for at least three months.
to spend more money than you can usually afford SYN splash out
splurge (something) on something
eg: On 11th Nov, Taobao shopping spree, I always can't splurging on all the goods from clothes to digital products.
