is there anything worse than a youtube daily routine video is there anything less human than calcifying into a predictable clock tick tocking on autopilot don't become predictable shake things up what is a routine a sequence of actions regularly followed french from root road from latin rupture via from rompo to break burst tear there are no roads that don't break free from somewhere what is a routine a regular sequence of actions [Music] but what are the actions routines trigger habits that are categorized into groups morning routine daily routine research routine dinner routine reading routine a habit
is the repetition of an action in a certain context they help us perform a task in a way that avoids reflecting on every detail of the process everything we do depends on routines and habits habits are learned behaviors that we predict will lead to specific results every habit is a prediction a routine is a gene a blueprint for action a way that a group of habits are passed through time so i have a work routine and depending on where i am in the cycle i'll trigger another routine like say the research routine and this might
trigger the reading routine read for two hours each morning on a tablet organized into folders saved on cloud for efficiency highlight make notes and margins and when finished most of the reading on a topic can have confidently understood it start from the beginning go through highlights and margin notes of each pdf or book start a new document make final notes synthesize summarize paraphrase but hang on let's pause a sec aristotle said that hexis was a person's lasting characteristics their prevailing capacities the dispositions they had that lasted over time and a person's hexis was a product
of their ethos the essential principles they lived by so each habit you make makes up your routines and each routine you have makes up your hexis and all of this is a result of your ethos and your ethos determines your hexis and your hexis produces your routines and your routines are comprised of your habits so unless like a gargoyle your ethos is to live for motionless existence devoid of dynamism and allergic to change then your habits should not be habitual and your routines not programmed in roots but to encase right into the roots of the
concept itself that the root of routine is to break no two quadrants of space are the same no two seconds of the same task identical no two trees have the same branches and even the most repetitive of habits distinguish themselves from one another by the most indistinguishable of my new shine in neuroscience repetitive priming refers to the improvement to a behavioral response when stimuli are repeatedly presented the response becomes better automated routines hardwire responses into fast instinctive non-reflective neural pathways i don't have to think too much about this left right left right left right most
animal neurons are fixed in place less energy is used then repetition suppression on the other hand refers to the brain getting used to the repetition and responding less each time the new excites the next time not so much the next time not at all this saves neural energy making responses habitual routinized predictable but then why are we not on autopilot routineizing everything why is groundhog day not heaven humans want to create too compared with all other animals we have the largest uncommitted cortex area with neurons not linked to each other with specific automatic responses humans
have hardwired automatic habitual responses and we have cognitive thinking creative responses favorite restaurant try something new same guitar chord learn a new one the journalist arthur costler said that creativity is the breaking of habits through originality every action is repetitive or different but even the difference contains some trace of the repetitive and the repetitive some element of the different habitable definition suitable enough to live in the habitual is comfortable the known the attempt to capture the predictable past the dweller of the past is fond of the habitual they seek repetition of the agreeable nothing is
the same twice nothing is the same twice my day is comprised of countless routines nested inside one another and following each other like gears in a watch ticking and talking my routines throw me into the future but my writing routine this moment right now is the most unroutingizable the most conscious the most deliberative the most authentic the most creative almost every sentence is in some way new so we must avoid the same tired words reinvigorate the docile old theories leave lasting fresh marks on the page [Music] remember that habits are comfortable habitual made to be
updated amended and revised add some chaos into the concept of habit itself the root of routine is to break you're in a rut with a bad habit and the longer you stick with the habit the deeper the rut gets welcome to the world of tomorrow the memory of this day stands between you and your whole pattern of behavior where will you start you are about to take a journey out of this world into the world of the future forget the world around you [Music] hi everyone thank you so much for watching and i really enjoyed
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