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This is the feedback loop behind all human behavior: try, fail, learn, try differently. With practice, the useless movements fade away and the useful actions get reinforced. That’s a habit forming.
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Your habits are just a series of automatic solutions that solve the problems and stresses you face regularly.
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Habits are mental shortcuts learned from experience… a memory of the steps you previously followed to solve a problem in the past.
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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This is one of the most surprising insights about our habits: you don’t need to be aware of the cue for a habit to begin.
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Over time, the cues that spark our habits become so common that they are essentially invisible…
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Before we can effectively build new habits, we need to get a handle on our current ones.
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There are no good habits or bad habits. There are only effective habits. That is, effective at solving problems.
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The first step to changing bad habits is to be on the lookout for them.
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…people who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habit are more likely to follow through.
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