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The Duration Of Habit Formation
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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The Incentive Behind How Many Days Does It Take to Form a Habit
- There's something powerful about knowing an end exists
- Having a particular end date where things will supposedly become easier means being able to convince yourself that you can push through that number of days
- If our initial conviction was that things will now be easier - au...
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The Real Value: Get Started
- Your value system takes a drastic turn when you keep practising an activity you want to form as a habit.
- Embarking on a habit-formation journey gives you the opportunity to figure out what you really value.
- Persisting in doing something allows you to see which things are impo...
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The Bottom Line
- The essential thing is figuring out what tasks are worth keeping and what aren't.
- When you stick to a certain activity for 21 days or more, you give yourself the opportunity to find if this new thing is valuable enough - for you - to keep doing it.
- Regularly hitting the gym a...
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How The Myth Took Formation
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....
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The 21 Day Myth
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, yo...
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The Mechanics Of Habit Formation
Our habits are driven by a 3-part loop in sequence: trigger (the stimulus that starts the habit), routine (the doing of the habit and behaviour itself) and reward (the benefit associated with the behaviour).
Each repetition of this behavior pattern, it becomes...
Habit apps use the psychology of habit formation
- Many rely on a “streak” feature: they track how many consecutive days you’ve completed the habit;
- Other apps offer accountability features to pressure you into completing your goal;
- Some apps turn habit formation into a game: The app rewards users who complete their habits w...
The Confusion Of Habit and Routine
Habits are programmed human behaviors with little or zero conscious thought. Habits free our minds to other things, but our behavior isn’t always on autopilot. There are many tasks that require concentration, deliberation, and effort, and cannot be simply fed in the brain as an automatic habit.
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