The Commonplace: How to Feed a Soul on the Good, the Truth, and the Beautiful

If we habit train, is it even authentic?

Modern talk tells us authenticity is a great virtue, possibly even the highest virtue. We should only ever do that which feels most satisfying to us at the moment, and only if it comes to us spontaneously and organically.

#liveauthentic #youdoyou #mytruth

If we could only be our truest selves, free from internal and external constraints, we’d be happy. Maybe even have world peace.

This is obviously untrue. But it does lead to a good question: if we habit train our children, is anything they do authentic? Or, to put it another way, does habit training program a machine or form the affections of a person?

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