The Secret of Successful Artists & Writers

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Listen to episode 1034 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Successful Artists & Writers. Adapted from the book “Work” by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpts: The place of habit in life can hardly be overestimated. Habit works a groove for us into which we fall easily, and in which we move swiftly, so that the great bulk of our actions are done automatically, and the whole trend of our life is established. Habit cuts a pathway from the brain through the nerve-centers, until after a time a thing is done almost mechanically.

We do not stop to think how we will walk when we want to go anywhere. We have laboriously acquired the art of walking, till it is done without any conscious attention. This law extends its sway over every region of life. We have gone on doing acts and making judgments along a certain line till it could be foretold what we will do on any.

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1:16.2	Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.
1:37.9	Today's reading has been edited and adapted from the book entitled Work by Hugh Black, published in 1903.
1:51.0	The place of habit in life can hardly be overestimated.
1:59.0	Habit works a groove for us into which we fall easily and in which
2:04.4	we move swiftly so that the great bulk of our actions are done automatically and the whole
2:11.7	trend of our life is established. Habit cuts a pathway from the brain through the nerve centers, until after a time a thing
2:21.9	is done almost mechanically.
2:25.9	We do not stop to think how we will walk when we want to go anywhere.
2:31.2	We have laboriously acquired the art of walking, till it is done without any conscious
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