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This is Optimal Living Daily. How creating a new daily habit is the answer to a better self.

By Michael Melberg of Michael Melberg.com. I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, reading you articles

and essays every single day of the year,

including holidays, helps keep us both on the right track. So with that, let's stay on that track

as we optimize your life. How creating a new daily habit is the answer to a better self

by Michael Melberg of Michael Melberg.com.

Since birth, we have been constantly learning. Though it is not something we feel, we simulate

knowledge and build habits from new experiences daily. In the beginning, learning was effortless.

As we grew into adulthood, the roots of our knowledge

spread deeper, becoming ingrained in us, and making it more difficult to pick up new concepts.

Take foreign language as an example. Children pick up foreign tongues naturally and effortlessly.

Adults may master the basics quickly, but as a colleague of mine once said about golf,

the secret to getting better is to start

earlier. This is nothing to do with our intelligence. We are simply creatures of habit, and not just

those hard-to-break habits, like nail-biting. We unknowingly create habits for nearly everything. It's a matter

of efficiency. Why is that golf swing so hard to learn? Because we spend a lifetime

teaching our bodies to move a certain way. Swinging a long club at a tiny ball for the first time is

foreign, inefficient. Hence feels awkward and difficult to absorb. We haven't created the muscle memory.

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