Tying yourself to a mast is perhaps the oldest written example of what psychologists call a commitment device.

You're just telling yourself, Without you, commitment device, I am nothing, I have no self discipline.

A commitment device is a decision that you make with a cool head to bind yourself so that you don't do something regrettable when you have a hot head.

Are you going to set yourself up as mentally attacking yourself?

But despite my like for them, there's two nagging concerns that I've always had about commitment devices, and you might feel this if you use them yourself.

Billions of events have occurred in your history that are related in time to yourself as the receiver, or yourself as the actor, yourself as the thinker, yourself as the mover.

Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

But recite the name of your Lord withdrawing yourself from everything, devoting yourself exclusively to Him.

But recite the name of your Lord withdrawing yourself from everything, devoting yourself exclusively to Him.

Go explain yourself to Yoon.

Always be true to yourself.

To you learn by envisioning yourself as a scientist, and then you learn to envision yourself as a scientist.

Make yourself understood to the computer.

It's called being true to yourself.

Please help yourself to some fruit.

Please help yourself to the fruit.

Help yourself to anything you like.

Please help yourself to the cake.

You should learn to restrain yourself.

Get yourself to a specialist center.

Help yourself to more potato chips.

Help yourself to whatever you like.

Help yourself to whatever you like.

You don't have to kick yourself.

You yourself need to be treated!

To him do you address yourself.

You're putting yourself, you're binding yourself, and you're weaseling your way out of it, and then you're beating yourself up afterwards.

Piss yourself.

Behave yourself.

Watch yourself.

Pace yourself.

Save yourself.

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You should talk to the teacher yourself.

Your days become devoted to protecting yourself.

Being absolutely true to yourself is freedom.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Don't try to do this by yourself.

You should learn how to control yourself.

Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Ask yourself how long you would have to work to provide for yourself an hour of reading light this evening to read a book by.

Take yourself out of your shoes, put yourself into the shoes of another person.

Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?