How to eradicate bad habits. St John tells us that if we all knew the day of our death, we would delay repentance. "From long habit, (we) would become confirmed in vice, and would remain utterly incorrigible." We talk about the purpose of reading the Ladder, how the remembrance of death helps eradicate bad habits, how to fight certain bad habits in a practical way, and a great fear we must have regarding bad habits, all in under five minutes.