I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
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There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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