Roman historian Suetonius documented how Julius Caesar, in the years before his assassination, developed a habit of dismissing warnings — not from arrogance exactly, but from accumulated success. Each time a risk failed to materialize, his threshold for taking the next one quietly rose. This is what the philosopher Ibn Khaldun, writing in 14th-century Tunisia, called 'asabiyyah decay' — the gradual erosion of the internal cohesion that built something in the first place. You stop doing the small, unglamorous things that created the success because the success itself makes them feel unnecessary. The dangerous habit isn't laziness or vice. It's the quiet retirement of the practices that earned you what you now stand to lose. Monday is a good day to notice which of your disciplines have quietly slipped into optional.

What did you stop doing — specifically — after something in your life started going well?

Drawing from Islamic historiography / Political philosophy — Ibn Khaldun