Skipping your morning ritual creates a reactive pinball mode where you get bounced around all day instead of being proactive and centered

Eben describes the contrast: 'When I don't do my ritual... I wake up, I'm a little bit disoriented. I have to immediately go, you know, get ready, take a shower, put my clothes on. I don't have time to really sort myself out, get myself centered and strong. And all day, I'm in reactive mode. I'm like a pinball getting shot all around the pinball machine.'