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Reduce affordances for distraction in your environment…
Reduce affordances for distraction in your environment by removing or concealing objects that invite unintended actions, rather than relying on willpower to resist invitations.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Action possibilities exist in the relationship between… (affordances exist in agent-environment relationship), Behavior follows the path of least resistance due… (behavior follows least resistance), and Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (willpower is finite). Gibson's affordance theory applied prescriptively: change what the environment affords rather than trying to resist affordances through executive control.