INTP Musings13 Des 2020

You can’t binge on good (or bad) behavior

One of the things I am learning as I go through life is that you can’t binge on good behavior and expect a good life. What I mean by that is if your behavioral norms are corrupted, you can’t do the occasional good or even the occasional VERY good deed and expect your life to improve significantly and sustainably. Good begets good, and daily habits do the begetting, not occasional acts that are out of character. This is true no matter how large the magnitude of your temporary good deed.

A good deed will make you feel good for awhile, but eventually you will fall back to the baseline feeling that is the result of your standard behavior.

Boring, small, daily habits are what matter, not gigantic heroic acts.

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