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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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We all want better lives for our future selves. However, when the moment of decision arrives, instant gratification usually wins.
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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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…the Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change: What is immediately rewarded is repeated. What is immediately punished is avoided.
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At some point, success in nearly every field requires you to ignore an immediate reward in favor of a delayed reward.
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…it’s possible to train yourself to delay gratification – but you need to work with the grain of human nature, not against it.
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…add a little bit of immediate pleasure to the habits that pay off in the long-run and a little bit of immediate pain to ones that don’t.
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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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