What is a habit? Habit is a repetitive and usually unconscious rule of daily behavior. When our destiny is faced with a choice, it is often habit that helps us make a decision. In daily life, people always show some habitual behaviors consciously and unconsciously, which is just an unconscious behavior of people. However, it is these unconscious behaviors that often bring people some unexpected consequences, which are caused by what we usually call "habits". Usually, the power of habit is enormous. 90% of a person's daily activities are constantly repeating the original actions, and then subconsciously transformed into programmed inertia. Therefore, habit determines fate, and habit determines life.
When a fire broke out in the Imperial Library of Alexandria, all the books in the library were burned, and only one book survived. A poor man bought it and found a thin parchment hidden in the book, which recorded the secret of turning a stone into gold in detail. This kind of stone can turn any ordinary metal into gold, but its appearance is almost the same as that of ordinary stone. The only difference is that this strange stone feels warm, while ordinary stones feel cold. The poor were ecstatic, so they sold their possessions and came to the Black Sea, where the strange stones were. In order not to pick up repeated stones, he throws every cold stone into the sea. So he picked it up and threw it away. As the days passed, he never found the strange stone again. However, he was not discouraged and continued to pick up and throw stones ... endlessly. One morning, he picked up a stone and touched it. It's warm! But he still threw it into the sea, because he had formed the habit of throwing stones into the sea. This stone-throwing action is so habitual that when the strange stone he dreamed of and looked for appeared, he habitually threw it into the sea. In reality, we are striving to pursue our dreams, hoping to get pure love, successful career and happy marriage. These dreams are "strange stones" on the shore of the Black Sea, but many people have gone through hardships to find it and then threw it into the sea. It is the habit of "throwing stones" that binds our thinking and affects our actions.
Confucius mentioned in the Analects of Confucius: "Sex is similar, but learning is far away." This means that human nature is very similar, but far apart because of different habits. Napoleon Hill once said, "Habit can make or break a person." It can be seen that most people's actions depend on habits. All nature and commitment are not as powerful as habit. Habit is the slave of all great men and the accomplice of all losers. Great men are great because of the help of habits, and habits are equally responsible for the failure of losers. Therefore, habits play an important role in people's daily life.
Habit is small, but it has far-reaching influence. The gap between people is not as big as people think. Excluding factors such as skin color and height, the gap is actually very small. If people receive the same education in the same environment, the gap will become wider and wider later, which is often caused by different habits. Lu Xun said: "I just use other people's coffee time to write." So he became a writer. In fact, it is this tiny habit that determines a person's fate. In Bacon's On Life, the great thinker once discussed the relationship between habit and fate: "People's actions mostly depend on habit. All nature and commitment are not as powerful as habits, and perhaps only religious fanaticism can compare with them in this regard.
William james, a world-famous psychologist, famously said, "Sow an action and reap a habit; Sow a habit and reap a character; Sow a character and reap a destiny. " . In a sense, all human habits begin from childhood. Good habits formed from childhood will accompany people's life and play a role everywhere. As Montessori, a famous educator, said, "Three years old determines a lifetime." What a tenacious habit of the Force. It can dominate a person's life. Therefore, we should establish good habits from an early age, cultivate them through education, and never forget them until they become natural.