habits
Thoughts are Central, However, thoughts matter most most due to their ability to grow into a habits. Habits are are actions that we automatically gravitate towards. Hence, we have to be diligent towards what actions we auto gravitate towards.
On social media addiction.
On the habit regarding social media.
Remember: It's not the single check of social media (Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) it's the trajectory for the day, to let you mind crave Cheap Dopamine, once you take that first hit.
Abstaining completely for the day until evening is doable. But re-abstaining over and over again during the day is much harder if you took the hit. So when it comes to social media during the day total abstaining is the way to go.
General Habit related quotes
All people are the same only their habits differ. - Confucius
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant
“Character is simply habit long continued” — Plato
“By nature men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” — Confucius
“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become” — Heraclitus
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” — Nathanael Emmons
“‘Excellence’ is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’, in fact we achieve ’excellence’ by acting ‘rightly’.” — Plato
“Sanity means tying it [your well being] to your own actions” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John-Dryden
Related
- Book: Atomic Habits - How to adjust habits tiny steps at a time, and how micro improvements compound to create massive life changes.
- Make the Right Thing Automatic
- Do: Act Decisively
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