A philosophy, diet, or productivity doctrine asks you to declare war on your own body — try tuning the appetites instead of executing them.

Most moral and productivity systems are amputation systems: they declare whole parts of human nature (hunger, laziness, desire, play) as enemies and then demand willpower to fight them. Lin's alternative — expect neither too much nor too little of man, harmonize rather than deny — is cheaper, kinder, and actually works, because it starts from the creature that exists rather than the angel that doesn't.