We are what we repeatedly do
Keyword self We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
Keep the gifts; retrain the inclinations. A tendency is a clutch that slips, not a sentence. You become what you repeatedly do — excellence is not an act but a habit — so if you want to be steadier, you must first act steadier; you can even, deliberately, behave as the person you wish to be until the behavior hardens into a self. Build your worth from the inside. Choose your core values on purpose — pick them, name them, write them down — and then organize and act around them, so that you become whole and undivided rather than at war with yourself, which is the real meaning of integrity. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle (Sample epigraph — replace with one of your own, or with a line of mine you remember me saying.) We have spent four chapters mapping the inside of one cockpit — the mind that reasons, the heart that feels, the whole instrument panel of a single person. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)