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

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Is There a Word for This?

i started trying to learn sleight of hand in cards maybe five years ago. i actually videotaped myself doing a particular move, i have about three years of a videotypes showing progression. And it's like, wow, likehow it's incredible, just what effort will do. There are our habits, which we acquire, often not through intention, although sometimes we do. And then there are skills that we sort of set about doing, like driving a stick shiff,. learning magica. It's all the same kind of thing. It's just we call something a habit and something else just an ability or something? Or right?

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