In the video the speaker discusses why it is hard to change. He starts off by telling about a ____ which was carried out between two study groups. Each group was presented with a bowl of freshly-baked chocolate cookies and a bowl ____ with radishes. The first group was instructed to eat only the cookies while the second group only the pungent ____ vegetables. They did as they were told. Immediately after the experiment they were given a ____ task: to trace out a complicated geometric shape without raising their pencil above the ____. The researchers wanted to see how long they would ____ in a difficult task. As a result, the cookie eaters went on for an average of nineteen minutes, whereas the radish eaters could ____ only about eight minutes: they simply ran out of self-control. The research concluded that monitoring our behavior carefully is ____. A change implies that things that you have been doing ____ are now substituted with new tasks which require tremendous self-control. That helps as explain why we snap at our partners after a hard working day or start ____ after a harsh diet. We are simply ____, not lazy.

Why Changes Are Difficult

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