DRIVING OUT BAD NAILS
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A teacher who was lecturing on habits told his class, “Anything you
repeat twenty times is yours forever.” From the back of the classroom
came a whispered voice, “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah….” Of course, what
the teacher was trying to say is that any behavior, often repeated,
becomes habit.
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The Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus once said, “A nail is driven out
by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.” And if I understand him
right, he suggests that saying no to a bad habit is not enough.
Instead, we should try to replace it with a good one. Repeat the new
behavior twenty times … and it is yours.
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If any behavior, good or bad, is often repeated, it becomes stronger
and more powerful. “Since habits become power, make them work for you
and not against you,” said E. Stanley Jones. In other words, drive out
the undesirable nail, the behavior you’d like to change, with a better
one.
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May 15 2009