Can you become a Creature of New Habits?

This is why learning a new programming language is good. As is learning anything that forces a different way of doing things.

Interesting that the article mentions changing "which thumb is up." When I was a kid a decided to switch from right thumb up to left, and now it's the only way I do it, and the opposite feels awkward. So on many lateral dominance tests I show up as left-handed, but I'm fully right-handed.

I also never knew "kaizen" was so much of a technique than a word that just means "improve for the better," nor do I recall it being used specifically as a name of a technique. Not so sure if the article really had to introduce a foreign language to seem more mystical: this is age old wisdom.