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

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Getting Used to a Little Bit of Hardship?

A passage from a philosopher called carol rovain says, every day you should do something that's like, just a little inconvenient in order to keep your will sharp enough for when you need it. He calls this like insurance. O know, it may never do you any good, but it also could be he difference between disaster or salvation. I remember disagreeing with her. She was a very, sort of a, a epicurean kind of a person. If i want to drink sherry and eat bonbons all day, i don't see what'sso wrong with thatand she said, i couldn't disagree more. So, like, i want to believe james

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