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4 • Habits - Part 2

The difficulty with overcoming bad habits lies in the fact that people are usually not aware of the extent to which habit has taken over their thinking. Habits in our day-to-day living, and in our daily working, can develop into a fixed pattern that seems "normal." For this reason, we find it difficult to see that it is our own complacency that has dug us deep into a habit groove. We prefer to blame others or outside conditions: our boss, our wife, our office location, our children—in fact, anyone or anything but ourselves.

Furthermore, getting out of a mental rut requires real effort. Creative thinking entails the hardest kind of mental discipline and effort. Unless there is some great incentive, and money is often not enough, people prefer the status quo. Life is so much simpler that way. But before you can begin to overcome noncreative habits, you must first devil you know is a lot friendlier than the devil you don't. But first you have to recognize the devil for what he is!

Now it is obvious that if habits aren't actually caused by some of the primary types of mental blocks, all blocks are, in a way, also habits. The difficulty is that we have allowed ourselves to become so absorbed in routine matters, routine ways of thinking, and routine reactions to situations that we seldom use our senses to help us break the routines. Routine seems normal—it is a self-perpetuating circle. But the way to overcome mental-blocking patterns is the same way you overcome bad habits. By changing one set of creative inhibitors, you will also probably change the other.

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