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Now on to today's reading, which was edited and adapted from

Wake Up and Live by Dorothea Brand, published in 1936.

There are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible,

two qualities that are necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation to find a routine,

which allows us to get our day's task done with a minimum of effort and conscious attention.

A fact which might have no unfortunate effects at all, if we use the time we save by our routines to a good purpose.

But the cold truth is that we do nothing of the sort.

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