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People thinking about forming good habits often get stuck. They get preoccupied with a question that feels hopeful. But it’s actually hollow inside. In particular, looking for the answer to: How many days does it take to form a habit?
There is no point.
If you want to know how many days does it take to form a habit, here’s what the experts say:
According to a study done by the European Journal of Social Psychology. For a person to form a new habit, and for this habit to become a kind of automatic behaviour, it takes anywhere from 18 to 254 days. Commonly, the number is 66 days
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According to productivity experts, if a person commits to doing something – anything – for 21 days straight.
This thing will supposedly become automatic behaviour that doesn’t require any effort. This is not true.
For example, if you want to lose weight, you should focus on exercising and carefully considering what you eat, not that if three weeks are over!
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In a famous book from the 1960s, Dr. Maxwell Malt said: "These, and many other commonly observed phenomena tend to show that it requires a minimum of about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell."
21-days seems reasonable. Easy. Tweetable. Doable. Pretty much everyone can persist in doing something for 21 days.
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