All behavior is ultimately reducible to physical and chemical processes.
I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards.
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.
"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone."