Immovable Stubbornness⁠↗

If you want to understand someone, figure out the narrative they tell themselves about themself. If you want to change your behavior, change your narrative. If you want to change someone else’s behavior, offer them a more compelling narrative they can tell themselves.

George Clason with insight on the entropy of lifestyle creep: “That what each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.”