The cognitive architecture of young bodies is more pliable…
Page 76. The cognitive architecture of young bodies is more pliable, and therefore more open to habit formation than old ones. Could be young but realize how soon they will become your walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
— 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
The catch is that this clay stiffens with age — we lose much of that flexibility as we grow older — which is exactly why the young must recognize that their power to change is at its highest right now. As James also warned, we are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and the threads, once spun, are hard to undo. [Tell here, in your own words, about something you taught yourself later in life than anyone expected — a skill, a language, a way of being — and what it felt like to discover you were not finished after all.] — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)