Habits can make people numb

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At the end of the 19th century, Cornell University in the United States conducted a famous "frog experiment": they put a frog in a big boiling pot, and the frog ran out like an electric shock. Later, people put it in a big pot full of cold water and let it swim freely. Then the frog was slowly heated with a small fire. Although the frog could feel the change of the external temperature, it didn't jump out immediately because of its inertia. Later, when the heat was unbearable, it lost its escape ability and was cooked. Here's how habits can make people numb.

Habits can make people numb

Habit affects our life slowly and silently, making it hard for people to notice the changes it has made to our life. And the inherent inertia makes people lazy to pay enough attention to small changes and deal with them in time. Therefore, people always take everything for granted. However, when things change little by little in a way that we can't see or touch, the result is the "qualitative change" that we can't control.

Psychologist William James once said: "sow an action, harvest a habit; sow a habit, harvest a character; sow a character, harvest a destiny." We can see from it that habit is closely related to fate.

Habit is a double-edged sword. Bad habits will make us numb and depressed unconsciously, while good habits will make us succeed step by step. Habit is the most powerful force. A person's success and failure, happiness and pain have a lot to do with habit. It affects our habits of life, thinking and dealing with people.

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We are always adapting to the external environment and creating a suitable environment for ourselves. Then we are trapped in the environment created by ourselves, making our activity space seem narrow, the sunlight becomes short, and the feeling becomes numb. When we wake up, it is irreparable, just like the frog in the experiment, and finally can't escape. Therefore, we should be good at constructing new ways of daily behavior, keep vigilant, and not allow ourselves to find out "exceptions", so as to completely overcome bad habits.