Setting a new habit, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry, aphorism 351

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Setting a new habit: One cannot lift a cogwheel into the air, let go, and expect it to remain, and so we must find one or two other wheels which are already in place and then position the new wheel accordingly.  The morning or evening rituals are the best places to begin.  One then approaches the chaos of midday, piecemeal, slowly assembling a productive machine from the strewn and wasted parts of an uncultivated life.



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