![]() As you repeat a certain behavior, the connection between the neurons (the fundamental units of the brain) associated with that behavior become stronger. From a biological perspective, the purpose of habits is to preserve energy by offloading the cognitive effort spent on repetitive tasks from the conscious to the subconscious. The FundamentalsĪ habit is a routine or behavior that is performed so regularly it becomes automatic. ![]() This post is the first of many where I'll attempt to liberate the thinner books that live within some of my own favorite books. It goes without saying, lessons of history is a great book. This is no surprise, as the book itself is an aggregation of frequently occurring patterns and ideas the authors identified while writing an eleven-volume series on the history of civilization. For example, almost every paragraph in Lessons of history by Will and Ariel Durant contains some profound piece of information. These several pages are the thinner book. The smaller the difference in size between the actual book and the thinner book, the better the book. The most important ideas in your typical 300-page book can usually be distilled into several pages.
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