How do you know the condition of my ego? This is an internal thought which you cannot possibly know.
Let's go down the rabbit hole of causes and reasons - now what? What is the solution to the pizza problem if it is a long past childhood memory I want to re-create? What now? I suppose I could think differently about the past? Suppress that emotional drive? Finally accept that the past is a memory and not some repeatable event forever locked behind the mind of a once happy pizza eater?
In programming terms an analogy would be to misdiagnose the root cause of a bug and paper over it with a hack.
The solution to just use willpower is fragile, given that willpower is a finite resource. But I suppose it is expedient, much like a hack of the software variety.
Let's go down the rabbit hole of causes and reasons - now what? What is the solution to the pizza problem if it is a long past childhood memory I want to re-create? What now? I suppose I could think differently about the past? Suppress that emotional drive? Finally accept that the past is a memory and not some repeatable event forever locked behind the mind of a once happy pizza eater?