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Although most people know what their bad habits are and want to rid themselves of them, a majority of these people find it very difficult to do so.
This is because cessation of habitual behavior is immediately and vividly painful, while whatever benefit is to be gained by the absence of the habit is perceived only dimly because it is remote.
The information above most strongly supports the statement that the people who are most successful at ending their bad habits are those who
can vividly imagine remote but
Why this is right
The people most likely to be successful at ending their bad habits are those who can reduce the immediacy and vividness of the pain associated with the cessation of habitual behavior or who can increase the vividness of the perceived benefit gained by the cessation of that habitual behavior.
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can vividly imagine their present
This would reduce one’s ability to end one’s bad habits.
2% picked this
have succeeded in the past
Succeeding in the past is not discussed in the statements.
1% picked this
are relatively unaware of their
One’s awareness of one’s behavioral characteristics is not linked to one’s success at ending bad habits.
1% picked this
can vividly remember the pain
The pain caused by bad habits is not discussed in the statements.
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