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There are no good habits.
- rcfox 16y agoDoes anyone actually do things for the sake of having always done them? Brushing my teeth is annoying. I would gladly stop doing it if there were no consequences. Tooth brushing is actually a terrible example of choosing the action with the highest utility because there is no such thing as brushing to gain. You're only preventing a loss. Compare this to running. If you never run, you will slowly lose your capacity to run. So running sometimes prevents the loss. But if you run beyond that you, you actually gain capacity to run. (Asymptotically, of course.) It's hard to empirically place the baseline for running capacity, but it should be obvious from watching Olympic sprinters and old, fat people that there is positive and negative swing to it.
- vacri 16y agoMeh. Not surprising he's a freshman. "It's not a habit, I just do it all the time because it's healthy/good for me". The arrogance of this is astounding. Does he truly consciously think about everything he does before he performs the task? The overhead is mindboggling. When he puts his shoes on in the morning, does he consciously think about the comfort difference between putting the right shoe on the right foot versus swapping them? At some point, you have to 'automate' what you do, it is no longer conscious. At this point, it is a 'habit', no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise.