Background Information 2. Hobbies habits Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as"a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to follow this or that particular line of action. Rickaby, Moral Philosophy2. Hobbies & Habits Background Information Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as “a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to follow this or that particular line of action.” (Rickaby, Moral Philosophy)