We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many use…

William James
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. ✨ William James (2012). Psychology: The Briefer Course, p.12, Courier Corporation
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