The number one rule of life is, you are a composite of 1. pure goodness 2, intelligence, which is objective observation of what is good and wise versus what is not and 3. pure animal instinct .And the way you become and stay a human is by controlling your animal – and the way you gain control is first of all, you need to tell yourself what to do; which is the only greatness a human has over an animal (which can’t.) And the second thing is to gain more control, as there are obviously things that you must do, such as eating, you can delay it and say a word of Torah, even for 50 seconds… – by showing your animal whose boss, you become it