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People often resist efforts to change their behavior, due to the fact that an individual's behavior is based on their thinking patterns, and this thinking has usually been developed over a long period of time based on life experiences, as well as their cognitive interpretation of these experiences. Due to the fact that an individual's behavior patterns have been developed over a great deal of time, and these individuals have been exhibiting their distinct behavior patterns over such a great deal of time, they have become comfortable with these behaviors, and or the results that exhibiting this form of behavior has gained them, which makes them resistant to efforts to change their behavior. ...

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