NATURA
- Aug 23
- 4 min read

Environmental Science

Investigating Environmental Change✨✨

We often talk about willpower, but no matter how much you try to change your mindset or thoughts, it will be in vain if your environment is unfavorable. To change your mindset, you must first change your environment.

For example, if you are Japanese 🇯🇵 and you want to learn English, you might vow to study every day, focusing on memorizing English words, reading books, and listening to music. However, unless you interact with native English speakers, your English studies might not be very effective.

The key is the environmental sounds around you and the responses you get when conversing with others, which are extremely important.😂😂

If you suffer from a severe mental illness and genuinely want to recover, living in a city with factors such as exhaust fumes, environmental stress, biases, processed foods, schemas, and pressure might make it difficult to improve your mental health. In such cases, moving to a place with abundant nature 🌳, reevaluating your diet, engaging in moderate exercise, and using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) along with medication can help stabilize your mental health.

We humans are influenced by invisible biases and societal rules (schemas) unique to our country that have been instilled in us since childhood without us even realizing it.

A common example is the status quo bias, where we tend to maintain the current situation even when changing it would be beneficial. This is often driven by societal rules (schemas) that everyone follows, leading us to stick to the status quo despite the advantages of change.

These phenomena are observed worldwide.✨✨

Unfortunately, humans have genes at the mitochondrial level that make us feel fear to avoid risks, a remnant from times of frequent conflicts. People without fear were quickly killed off. In modern times, conflicts have decreased, making our inherent fear somewhat obsolete.

Thus, feeling fear is not your fault; it is a natural human phenomenon, so there is no need to worry about it.

I decided to write about the environment after reading the bestseller *Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success* by American psychologist Benjamin Hardy. This book changed my way of thinking.✨✨

If you have the chance, I recommend reading it.

One of the key points from the book that I found interesting is that when we transition from our current environment to a new one, the most important thing is to "jump into the environment without thinking." 🏃‍♂️😂😂

I thought, "That's obvious!😅" but it's deeper than it seems. The book explains that humans have the ability to adapt to any environment, though it may be tough at first. When making an environmental change, it’s best to follow your intuition.

People who overthink tend to take no action, so if you are considering jumping into a new environment, just go for it without overthinking.😂😂

The book emphasizes that while willpower and focus are important, ultimately, the environment determines everything.✨✨

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