CHASE HUGHES: You have an identity that produces predictable behavior. [To change a habit] repeat the phrase, "That version is beneath me." "That behavior is unbelievably embarrassing." "That behavior is disgusting."

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— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) January 20, 2026

You do not have habits the way that people talk about habits.  You have an identity that produces predictable behavior.  That's what you call habits.  You have an identity that produces predictable behavior.  Identity is what your nervous system predicts you will do under pressure.  That's identity.  That's all it is.  So your brain has one big sacred rule is do not violate the story.  Do not violate the story.  The big roadblock is that identity change feels like death.  So you're behaving in a way that contradicts your identity. You're violating your brains number one rule: stay with the story.  You're violating THE rule of the brain.  So your brain experiences this as danger, exposure I'm going to get judged.

There's a loss of belonging, a loss of predictability.  So you have to destroy the old one first.  

So there's three mechanisms that change identity fast especially if you are manipulating another person: embarrassment, discussed and aversion.  Those three things you can change an identity, but we're doing it to ourselves.  So we stop forever for the rest of your life, stop saying "I'm working on myself" or "I'm trying to change," and start being disgusted with that other version of yourself, absolutely nauseated, disgusted.  

You always repeat the phrase, "That version is beneath me." 

"That behavior is unbelievably embarrassing."  

"That behavior is disgusting."  

"That thought process is disgusting."

"I don't recognize myself when I act like that."