NEWSLETTER
A Little-Known Secret to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
27th September edition of the Manximize newsletter
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3 min readSep 28, 2022
A habit is the smallest unit of repeatable work.
Repeatable is the keyword here.
The more you repeat a habit, the firmer it sits in your brain — and the easier it gets to repeat it further.
Picture a snowball hurtling down a hill — gaining size, mass, and speed at an increasing pace.
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
— Bruce Lee
But every ditch dotting the path slams a brake on the snowball’s greedy descent.
These ditches are your “zero” days — when you miss performing the habit.
The Two Major Culprits that Hinder Good Habits
One deep ditch will grind your habit snowball to a dead stop — and you’ll have to shove hard to get it rolling again.
But if your entire path’s dotted with shallow ditches?
