![]() ![]() ![]() “The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.” Both virtue and vice can be packaged within habits so that, to some degree, both positive and negative actions can be done on a near-subconscious level. Habits allow behavior to unfold automatically and without thinking, so that once we set them in motion, they unfold along established pathways. Here we see both the beauty and the horror of habits, the beauty of habits as they would exist in a perfect world and the horror of habits as they exist in a sin-stained world. So unless you deliberately fight a habit-unless you find new routines-the pattern will unfold automatically.” It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. “When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. He designed us so we form neurological pathways that condition us to do certain things in a kind of routine. We are creatures of habit, and I have to assume that God designed us this way. It is a fascinating book, and especially so when it focuses in on the habits that make our lives what they are. Habits are the subject of the bestselling The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron ![]()
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