In the beginning there was Jack. And Jack had a groove.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and that goes for your brain, too. Every time you amass the willpower to do anything, it has mental costs. (…)
Starting an activity seems to take a larger of willpower and other resources than keeping going with it. Required activation energy can be adjusted over time – making something into a routine lowers the activation energy to do it. (…)
This is a major hurdle for a lot of people in a lot of disciplines – just getting started.
