For example, do you wish you had more of an affordance to lie? Probably not, right?
If something comes to mind as an option (an action to take), or as a possibility (to consider), maybe it’s in your mind for a reason, and it might be useful to understand why. For example:
An affordance is a lot like an “open loop” in the Getting Things Done sense. If this is true, then if you have your phone in your pocket, the possibility of taking it out to check something takes some sliver of subconscious attention. On this model, you can increase your attention by removing things like this.
Maybe your attention goes to the phone because you have a habit involving that phone. Theories involving dopamine/skinner boxes/etc. aside, if doing a thing ‘makes you more likely to do it’, doing a thing less may be required for you to ‘do it less’, and feel the urge to do it less.
Get too caught up in a climber’s personal story about why they climbed Mt. Everest, and you might forget that statistically, a whole lot of whether-someone-climbs-mt-everest is probably statistically explained by whether they encountered situations which created the affordance.
The story may be useful to get an idea of what those situations (“which created the affordance”) are, or how they might be encountered.
If something comes to mind as an option (an action to take), or as a possibility (to consider), maybe it’s in your mind for a reason, and it might be useful to understand why. For example:
Maybe your attention goes to the phone because you have a habit involving that phone. Theories involving dopamine/skinner boxes/etc. aside, if doing a thing ‘makes you more likely to do it’, doing a thing less may be required for you to ‘do it less’, and feel the urge to do it less.
The story may be useful to get an idea of what those situations (“which created the affordance”) are, or how they might be encountered.