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HABIT CREATION

Literacy before leverage

Before habits become actions, they exist as conditions. As environments, internal and external, that make certain behaviours easier, others nearly impossible. If, like us, you are always curious to find the obvious and not so visible threads of meaning connecting different aspects in our lives - you've met your match! 

A bit of the word play and etymology. Habitat comes from Latin habitāre ("to dwell, live"), for us it refers to the setting in which behaviour lives: attention, energy, time, social context, expectations, tools, pressures. Not motivation, not willpower, but the conditions that quietly shape what repeats. This can be where the work begins. Not by asking What should I do, but examining Where and how am I living? When the habitat changes, behaviour often follows with less resistance.

The word Habit comes from Latin habitus: condition, bearing, state, attire, how one is held and how one appears. A habit therefore is not only something you repeat. It's something you wear. A visible expression of an internal arrangement. Over time, habits become character in motion, how we move through the world, how we're perceived, how we recognise ourselves. They are the bridge between inner condition and outer form. 

This section is concerned with habit as practice and persistence: how behaviours settle, stabilise, and begin to represent us: not as a performance, but as pattern. 

next steps for habit design: 

structured data, tools & a tad of patience, passion & persistence.

SUBSTACK

The Living

Library

This is where ideas are examined slowly and translated into usable understanding. Research is read critically, not celebrated blindly. Substack library is designed to be returned to, not rushed through.

o Essays, research notes & extended writing 

o Free and paid access

o The intellectual backbone of the habit design work

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