Brian Johnson argues that fighting bad habits backfires. Instead of battling what you do now, pick a better behavior and practice it immediately. The old habit fades naturally, like how a baby stops crawling once it learns to walk.
Don't fight your bad habits. He has a great example of a baby who doesn't get upset with itself because it has the "bad habit" of crawling. It just learns how to walk. It learns how to walk and it isn't upset that it used to crawl. It's just excited to create a new habit of walking. It's a better way to move around the world. So imagine if you approached your challenges like that, if you approached your "bad habits" like that. Not with judgment, but just say, "Look, I'm going to choose a different way of being." It doesn't need to be hard to create a new way of being. I'm just going to start doing this new thing. Boom, done. Huge idea. Don't fight your bad habits, just create new ones.
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