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The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague. The more of the…

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