Les habitudes sont contraires à la logique : au lieu d’être ennuyeux et répétitif, le fait d’accomplir les mêmes tâches à la même heure au même endroit permet d’exprimer sa créativité. L’énergie d’un lieu et la mémoire du temps nous aident à être présents dans le moment, et à accomplir des tâches en profondeur, au lieu de nous laisser distraire et

Establishing rituals is the key to creating positive inertia.

Whatever you want your day-to-day life to consist of doesn’t matter, the point is that you decide and then stick to it. In short, routine is important because habitualness creates mood, and mood creates the “nurture”

A key refinement to support this task-centric version of autopilot scheduling is to leverage rituals and locations.

Returning to our professor example, perhaps on Fridays she plans to always eat lunch at the same dining hall in the student center, and then once done, walk across the nearby campus green (a ritual) to the same carrel in the same small library (location), where she sits down and works through her grant reports. Maybe after she’s done, she returns t

Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks . . . It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity. —James Clear, author of Atomic Habits