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Where Do We Get Bad Habits?

How I got my bad habits (and you probably too!)

Michał Stawicki
3 min readJan 22, 2022
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Of course, I have no bad habits! I’m perfect!

Gotcha! :D

There are no perfect people on this world. Our habits make us who we are, so lack of perfection suggests at least some bad habits.

My Bad Habits

I don’t go to sleep early enough to have a truly productive morning.

I don’t praise my children often enough (read: I almost never praise them).

I binge-eat on sweets all too often.

Stop! Enough of this embarrassing list! I hope you got the point. I have “some” bad habits.

Where Do We Get Bad Habits?

I see two main sources of my (and everybody else’s) bad habits: people and succumbing to our vices.

My personal definition of a bad habit is: something you will regret after practicing for a year and you will regret it 100x more after 10 years.

Bad habits bring bad consequences. Good habits bring good consequences. Both kinds of habits compound, so you…

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Michał Stawicki
Michał Stawicki

Written by Michał Stawicki

Authorpreneur. Progress fanatic. I help people change their lives… even if they don’t believe they can. I blog on http://ExpandBeyondYourself.com/

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