[AndrewKemendo]

Humans do not have the capacity to be perfectly consistent with their long term goals. Therefore, as you take actions through life you are also voting for the person you don't want to be simply through failure or randomness.

Luckily there is a REPL for human behavior: feedback from the environment that the decision you made did or did not support your long term goals

This REPL allows you to iterate toward increasing the percentage of your effort that goes to long term goals.

This assumes you have measurable long term goals.