The best general advice on earth
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- The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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- Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new βsetβ to the brain.
- That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do