It is essential to do what is beneficial to health and wellbeing, including supporting fitness and positive development. However, many factors hinder people from engaging in advantageous activities resulting in various detrimental issues. Useful activities usually necessitate short-term sacrifices to achieve long-term benefits and long-term rewards (Lee). The most powerful part of the brain and evolutionary history suggests that people tend to like activities associated with short-term rewards. This paper intends to explain why people resist doing what is good for them but instead engage in activities that cause problems.
People tend to resist beneficial activities because they are usually tricky and hard to accomplish. For instance, students are expected to complete their assignments and work hard to pass their exams. However, many tend to relax and ignore provided guidelines despite having an understanding of their benefits. The outcome is that they fail their exams and ruin their career and subsequent quality of life (Lee). On the other hand, achieving physical fitness requires one to engage in regular activities that are not only difficult but also time-consuming—the inputs required to achieve what is right hinder many from doing what is beneficial to them. Similar to the gravitational theory, where objects at a height find it better or easier to fall on the surface, people also feel comfortable when avoiding the necessary small effort to do what is advantageous to them.
Beneficial activities come with a sacrifice that everyone must make to attain and enjoy them. Although everyone would like to receive the rewards, only a few make an effort to facilitate their achievement. Everything comes at a cost, which must be met to realize desirable results. This implies that any student wishing to pass exams must work hard and manage time appropriately. Moreover, individuals willing to spend their time and energy in regular exercises achieve physical fitness.
Reference
Lee Brian. We Do What We Know Is Bad for Us, Why?Lifehack. 2021. Web.