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Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

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New Year's Resolutions - Don't Trust Your Present Will

You need to go in full force and do every external motivation thing that you can to make yourself continue it, or else your thoct this is w i think new year's resolutions try to play this role at least. Accumulate all the possible circumstances which will reinforce the right motives. A single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. There's something both totally true, but also depressing about this, is that you can do everything right, you know, for a certain period of time, and then you make one lapse, and that just undoes,. like so much of that progress soto in my life.

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