The Ego Boost Is a Real Thing

The Training of the Mind by Alan Bennett talks about tendencies. The chitta or thought stuff is shown to consist of innumerable elements which are called dama and sankara if we trend or sorry dama or sankara so it's like essentially alluding the same thing when a given act has been performed a number of times there is a definite tendency to the repetition of that act  thus each mental dama each sankara tends to produce constantly its like and be in turn reproduced.