Willpower is overrated.
If you want to eat healthier, don’t work hard to avoid stopping at the cookie jar when you walk into the kitchen. Get rid of the cookie jar.
Systems are long-lasting, widespread and resilient. We can push back on them with effort, but over time, the system usually comes out ahead.
Once we see a system, we can change it.
Fixing the metrics and rewards of public education is more productive than celebrating one teacher who managed to outmaneuver the existing paradigm. And banning gas leaf blowers makes a lot more sense than shaming one landscaper for using them.