Due to this indoctrination, most people grow up with an ingrained habit of judging their own behavior and punishing themselves for failing to live up to the social rules they have internalized. Children are indoctrinated to behave according to social rules by being punished for bad behavior and rewarded for good behavior. In The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz argues that the way in which humans are “domesticated”-conditioned to live in society-is fundamentally damaging to the psyche.
