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A deep dive into Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg.
Only three paths lead to lasting change: having an epiphany, changing your environment, or changing your habits in small steps. The first cannot be summoned, nobody decides to have a revelation. The second depends on means and circumstances that no decision can produce: moving house takes money and an available place, changing jobs takes someone willing to hire you, rebuilding the people around you takes time and chance encounters. That leaves the third, the only one available at will, on any given day. A widespread mistake among the very people whose job is to change behavior, in prevention,…
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24 Sept 2026
The Road Less Traveled
A deep dive into The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck.
Life is difficult. Once that sentence is accepted, it stops weighing on us: what makes existence unbearable is not the difficulty but the secret conviction that it should not have fallen to us. Complaint, the "why me?", adds to legitimate pain a surplus suffering that leads nowhere. Suffering is the condition of existence, not an accident of it. From there, a single question arises, and everything else follows from it: with what tools does one face this difficulty? Problems are not obstacles to growth, they are its instrument. It is by solving them that the mind is formed, and there is no othe…
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24 Sept 2026
The Power of Habit
A deep dive into The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
More than 40% of the actions we perform each day are not decisions at all but habits: the figure comes from a 2006 paper by a Duke University researcher who logged, one by one, the actions of an ordinary day. Most of what we do, then, was never chosen that morning. The mechanism is a three-part loop: a cue, a routine, a reward. The cue tells the brain to switch to automatic mode and which habit to use. The routine is the behaviour itself, physical, mental or emotional. The reward tells the brain whether the loop is worth remembering. Ann Graybiel and her team at MIT observed it in rats placed…
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