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• animal_welfare created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Environment design is more reliable than willpower

Willpower is a depleting resource; physically shaping your surroundings to make good habits easy and bad habits hard guarantees long-term success. Similarly, Animal behavior is driven by environmental design.¹

Footnotes

1. Thaler, R. H. (2008). Nudge. ↩