If you have a habit that you are trying to get into and you keep failing miserably,

this is the podcast episode for you. That's what everyone talks about these days, right?

The power of habit.

If you want to change your life,

you have to change your habits.

And there's a lot of truth to that.

However, this goes back to what we were talking about in the last episode about try harder culture.

There is this idea out there in the social ether that if something is not getting done in your life if you are not able

To adopt the habits that all of the experts say that you should adopt it's your fault, it's because you're lazy, it's because

you're not trying hard enough.

What I have found through a lot of trial and error in this department is that that's usually

not the issue at all.

Let's say for example, for years,

I tried to develop a habit of going to the gym

and see, this is already you sense doom right it were five seconds

into this podcast and I haven't used the jaws music yet but there you can imagine

oh I should go to the gym.

That'll be fine.

Oh, you know what else I should do?

I should get up early.

Because that's what all the life hackers tell me I need to do.

Never accomplish anything if you don't get up early.

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