When we look at human beings, from a certain…
When we look at human beings, from a certain point of view they can be viewed as a bundle of habits. We are a bundle of habits. Habit. Existence.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Sick Souls, Healthy Minds- How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
In the book
Here is why all of this finally matters, and where the deepest leverage lies: habit. Because willpower is a fuel that runs dry by mid-afternoon, and on the days it is gone, you do not rise to your intentions — you fall to your habits. When you look at any living person from the outside, you are really looking at a bundle of habits. Which is why the line at the top of this chapter is the truest in it: we are what we repeatedly do, and excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)