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There’s a certain type of bad habit that a surprising number of us have. Addictive behaviors, procrastination, spending too much time mindlessly surfing the web, spending too much time doing pointless stuff we don’t actually enjoy, avoiding activities that we enjoy (and if we just thought about it for five minutes, we know we’d enjoy it).

There’s a certain type of bad habit that a surprising number of us have. Addictive behaviors, procrastination, spending too much time mindlessly surfing the web, spending too much time doing pointless stuff we don’t actually enjoy, avoiding activities that we enjoy (and if we just thought about it for five minutes, we know we’d enjoy it). The really curious thing about these bad habits is that they persist even if there’s nothing concrete keeping us from changing our behavior. There’s no chemical dependence, no withdrawal symptoms, we usually don’t become social outcasts by wasting less time o

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