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The truth is, a habit must be established before it can be improved.
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The idea is to make your habits as easy as possible to start… this is a powerful strategy because once you’ve started doing the right thing, it is much easier to continue doing it.
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Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis. You have to standardize before you can optimize.
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Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
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Commitment devices increase the odds that you’ll do the right thing in the future by making bad habits difficult in the present.
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The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. Increase the friction until you don’t even have the option to act.
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Once you understand how the brain prioritizes rewards, the answer become clear: the consequences of bad habits are delayed while the rewards are immediate.
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With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse…
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…the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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The vital thing in getting a habit to stick is to feel successful – even if it’s in a small way. The feeling of success is a signal that your habit paid off and that the work was worth the effort.
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