Comment by Jebdm on Action and habit · 2011-06-03T14:13:04.166Z · LW · GW

Not all people are automatically and naturally active. I certainly am not, and my parents in fact did the opposite of what you are saying. That said, "couch-potato-ness" can certainly be habitualized even in "natural" couch potatoes, making it even harder for them to do other things.