“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”

Chapter IV again, a few pages on from the fly-wheel.

I had been treating my own tiredness as an opponent to be beaten each morning. James suggests a cheaper arrangement: hand the decision to the body once, and stop reopening it. 🔹 Walk before screens works on the days it works because there is nothing to decide. Shoes are by the door and the phone is in another room.

He goes on to say we should make as many useful actions automatic as early as we can. At 34 I am late, though still within range.

Read alongside 📖 James on habit and the other line I kept from the chapter, 💬 Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel.