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Inertia is a double-edged sword

You know that feeling when you're stuck doing the same thing again and again with no change in sight? It's annoying, right? It's very hard to get out of it when you've been stagnant for so long. It's so hard to make a change. You're stuck in the same position as you were before. That's why it's so hard to start a new habit. Or stop a bad one. Unless, something will trigger you to move. Internally or externally. That's the downside of inertia. The good side of inertia is when you're moving, you're really moving. Right? Once you get started, momentum is on your side. In physics speak, momentum is mass times velocity. The greater the velocity, the greater the momentum. When you're moving, when you're constantly doing action, it just keeps you going. You get energized so you keep going then you see results so you keep going and so on and so forth. It's a self-sustaining loop. But what is inertia? According to Wikipedia, "iner...