Habits are Good!

Habits are Good!

This isn't an anti-habit website. Humans need habits. Even our ability to engage with the world is a form of habit (as the predictive processing neuroscientists and philosophers claim). I'm pretty good at chopping vegetables and I think that is a dandy little pattern to have engrained in my system.

And habits aren't just good for you. They are also good for your partners, for those who need to engage with you, to dance along, to find you predictable.

It is also useful to remember that habits are well intentioned. I mean… they are yours, they better be well-intentioned. And they were probably doing the best they could when they formed. In this respect, a habit can really only be 'good.'