Habits and Patterns

Take care of the mind and body you are stuck with for the rest of your life

I wrote this in October 2015, one week after writing the Plasticity essay. For a while I had been trying to learn how to run, to move faster than the uphill-like slog or jog that would have accurately described how I locomoted at the time. It reads to me now as a good examination of just how hard it is to change behavior, specifically unconscious behavi…