Principlev1
Design environments and cognitive framings that prevent
Design environments and cognitive framings that prevent competing impulses from arising, rather than developing stronger resistance to present impulses, because prevention eliminates the self-regulatory cost entirely while resistance merely manages it.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (willpower is finite and costly), When organisms are repeatedly exposed to aversive situations (environmental control affects behavior), and Cognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems (deliberate control is effortful). The principle prescribes upstream intervention - removing temptation rather than building resistance - based on understanding that resistance itself consumes the resource being preserved.