You’re nothing more than a mass of habits
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You’re nothing more than a mass of habits
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#2No, I'm not.
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#3You've just discovered this? Honestly, Aristotle's ethics is all about habits: keeping and nurturing 'good' habits (virtues) and preventing 'bad' ones (vices)...
So... welcome to maturity.
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#4I also discovered that forming habits doesn't mean it takes 21 days or 30 days or whatever nice round number people like to trout. To me, by 21 days to 30 days, something I am trying to make a habit is well on its way to becoming a habit.
I managed to add a bunch of habits such as doing math at khanacademy, writing 500 words a day, measuring data points on my body such as blood sugar, weight, steps, sleeping time, pulse rate, and blood pressure.
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#5You're especially nothing more than a mass of habits if one of those habits happens to be attempting to render all life nothing more than a mass of habits.
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#6I'm not sure "mass" is the appropriate collective term for habits. Perhaps "collection" serves better here.
I'm more than my habits, Aristotle aside. I'm an economist and a programmer and a father. The last causes disruptive change to habits more often than not.
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#7You're especially nothing more than a mass of habits if one of those habits happens to be attempting to render all life nothing more than a mass of habits.
Hah! Reminds me: it's turtles all the way down, and chances are one of them is a teenage ninja.
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#8Vimes is described in Pratchett's Guards! Guards! as a "skinny, unshaven collection of bad habits marinated in alcohol".
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#9You're especially nothing more than a mass of habits if one of those habits happens to be attempting to render all life nothing more than a mass of habits.
Hah! Reminds me: it's turtles all the way down, and chances are one of them is a teenage ninja.
Teenage ninja turtles are nothing more than a mass of teenage, ninja and turtle habits.
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#10You've just discovered this? Honestly, Aristotle's ethics is all about habits: keeping and nurturing 'good' habits (virtues) and preventing 'bad' ones (vices)... So... welcome to maturity.
You are right, I think he is carried away by his experinces. Actually, Book 'The power of Habit' (which I am also reading) is more about how habit forms and how to change/replace any Habit (from bad to good), whether it is Individual, Organization or Society. It is 'how' that is important here.
For Individual part, I am planning to launch an app for addicts so that they could also get benefit from same principles. I believe in that cue, routine, reward cycle. But, For creating app I need to do my own research for individual cases.