Forget Habits, Build Your Keystone First
A crucial part that most habit articles blatantly miss
I incinerated my college years through binging anime, games, YouTube, porn, and processed junk.
The only positive was my religious zeal for working out — I was the proverbial gym rat.
But during the lockdown, I augmented my life with a menagerie of extra dimensions—philosophy, finance, music, writing, and restarting reading.
With gyms closed, I got inconsistent with working out and justified it with, “Why be obsessed with fitness? There’s so much more to life”. I remember gloating to people over how I was no longer a gym rat.
Boy, was I wrong!
Life soon became an unproductive downhill — I sucked at all my newfound “dimensions”. Around this point, an article and deep introspection gave me a mini-epiphany.
Working out wasn’t “just another thing”. It was the thing — my life’s keystone.
By disregarding it, I was disregarding life itself.
Your Keystone Shapes Your Entire Life
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