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MINDSET: The Inner Bastard
You know the feeling when you struggle to get over your habits when you know that you should be going to the gym or eat healthy salad. Instead, you follow your ‘Inner Schweinehund. The “Inner Schweinehund” is your worst enemy. It’s the “inner bastard,” that is standing between you and the right habits.
The term “inner bastard” describes — often as an accusation — the allegory of weakness of will, which prevents a person from carrying out unpleasant activities that are either seen as ethically necessary (e.g., tackling problems, exposing oneself to danger, etc.), or that seem to make sense to the person in question (e.g., following a diet). The allegory can thus be directly linked to motivation, and it is a metaphorical paraphrase of acrasia.
We all struggle with the enemy that often stands on the sidelines, waiting to hop in and push us in the dirt, forget our mission and relax just a bit more.
“You and I have been there, the times, when it seems very insignificant to give up to our “inner schweinenhund”, nobody is watching, right? What is the worst that…
