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the leash you hold at both ends, choosing which parts of you run on autopilot.
means a fixed sequence of actions repeated regularly, usually to remove decision-making from daily life.
from from french route, meaning a beaten path; a routine is literally the road you wear smooth by walking it every day.
willpower savingsdecisions on autopilot cost the brain almost nothing.
habit loopcue, routine, reward — coined by charles duhigg, 2012.
astronaut tricknasa schedules crew sleep to the minute in orbit.
comedy meaninga rehearsed bit performed the same way each show.
for instance
navy seal wake up — 4:30am rise, made famous by admiral mcraven 2014 speech.
beethoven's 60 beans — counted exactly 60 coffee beans per cup, every morning.
murakami's marathon writing — wakes at 4am, writes, runs 10km, daily, for decades.
factory assembly line — ford's 1913 moving line turned routine into mass production.