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How Friction Can Help You With Quitting Bad Habits

How Friction Can Help You With Quitting Bad Habits

In tech, friction refers to the steps a customer needs to take to perform a certain action. Too many steps and your funnel starts to leak.

For you, on the other hand, the harder it is to perform a habit, the less you will want to do it. This is crucial.

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Quitting bad habits by making it harder to do them.

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