When we do something over and over, we learn it deeply.
Habits can be helpful and positive.
An athlete practices his moves on the gridiron many times so that he won't have to think consciously about them on game day. But we all know that longstanding bad habits can be difficult to reverse. The Hunchback of Notre Dame . He said that he had to strap himself in a harness to look like a genuine hunchback. But as the days of the filming stretched into weeks, Chaney found that the longer he stayed in a stooped position, the longer it took him to stand up straight after the day's filming had ended.