Narrows your cognitive flexibility. This means more mistakes and becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Parasitic processes like [[Depression]] can adapt to the ways of which you try to overcome it because it is literally operating using your operating system. Solved through a counter active dynamic system, examples include: - 8 fold path in [[Buddhism]], a set of practices that are interdependent, complementary, and self-rolling - ex) gold smith analogy - steps of smithing gold are to look, integrate with heating and sculpting - each step has strengths and weakness that build a more featureable identity and skillset