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

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How to Acquire a New Habit

Benjamin franklin wrote a book about the moral value of habit. He says that effortful action is not dressed hard, because ts effortful, but it kind of sucks like it. We must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible. Accumulate all possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right motives. Put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way. Make engagements incompatible with the old. Take a public pledge, if the case allows. In short, envelop your resolution with every aid, you know. But yesye, let's deffling talk about it.

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