“Arranging to Fail Loophole: It’s odd. **Instead of fleeing temptation, we often plan to succumb**. In what Professors [[Lee Beach]] and [[Gordon Alan Marlatt|G. Alan Marlatt]] dubbed “apparently irrelevant decisions,” **we make a chain of seemingly harmless decisions that allow us covertly to engineer the very circumstances that we’ll find irresistible**. “I’ve long been obsessed by author [[J. M. Barrie’s]] strange, brilliant skeleton of a book, The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island, about three boys who set sail to seek the adventure of being capsized. I’m particularly haunted by its first line, “**We set out to be wrecked”; to fail was the very purpose of their undertaking**.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[failure]], [[self-sabotage]], [[story-bias]] , **Source** -- [[20240806084000 - B - Better Than Before]]