Short YouTube monologue by Kim Zoller (Taking Strides with Kim) recorded while visiting Florida. The speaker explains that brains default to old, easy habits and that creating a new habit requires repeated practice—"repetition is the mother of mastery"—ending with a direct challenge to the viewer to repeat their chosen behavior until it becomes automatic.
Hi, guys. Today I am taking strides from Florida where I am here visiting my dad. And I started thinking about habits and why our brains, it's so hard for us to create a new habit. Well, what we know is that our brains go to what's easiest. Our brains, our bodies, everything. We go to what's easiest. So what's easiest is old habits. Well, how do we create a new habit if our brain constantly wants to go to the old habit? We do it over and over and over and over and over. Repetition is the mother of mastery. And in order to create a new habit, to make our brain go to that new, easiest habit, we have to do it over and over so that that's what it knows. I challenge you today to whatever you're doing. Just do it over and over and over again, and that will become your new easy habit.
