we are what we repeatedly do
Page 72 we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act. It is a habit.
— 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
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. Understand first what a habit is. […] When you fail, and you will, hear it as instruction and answer it with the word yet. Build the small, daily habits that will quietly carry you on the days your willpower is gone, because in the long run you do not rise to your hopes; you fall to your routines. Remember always that it is not the learning itself that counts, but what you do with it. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)