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How your habits shape your identity
- Outcome-based habits focus on what you want to achieve. Identity-based habits focus on who you wish to become.
- Usually, people try to change their habits by focusing on what they want to achieve, resulting in outcome-based habits.
- But the author's approach focus on identity-based habits. With this approach, we focus on who we desire to become.
- Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act as per their belief.
- For instance - If you believe you have nice hair then you will develop all sorts of habits to maintain your hair.
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2-step process to change your identity
- First, decide the type of person you want to become and second, prove it to yourself with tiny wins.
- For example:- you want to write a book. Ask yourself, who is the type of person that can write a book? The answer is the person who writes consistently. Now your focus shifted from wr...
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How to create a good habit
- In a nutshell, to build good habits follow the following rule
- The 1st law (Cue) → Make it obvious
- The 2nd law (Craving) → Make it attractive
- The 3rd law (Response) → Make it easy
- The 4th law (Reward) → Make it satisfying
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How to break a bad habit
- Inversion of the 1st law (Cue) → Make it invisible
- Inversion of the 2nd law (Craving) → Make it unattractive
- Inversion of the 3rd law (Response) → Make it difficult
- Inversion of the 4th law (Reward) → Make it unsatisfying
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Build better habits in four simple steps
- Before knowing building better habits, first, we need to know the science behind how habits work.
- Habits form in the following order: Cue → craving → response → reward
- Cue: A cue is like a trigger or a signal that prompts you to start a habit. It's something ...
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Questions to ask if you want to change your behaviour
- How can I make it obvious?
- How can I make it attractive?
- How can I make it easy ?
- How can I make it satisfying?
- If you ever feel why don't I do what I say then the answer can be found somewhere in these four laws.
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3. Changing Your Identity
This level is concerned with changing your beliefs: your worldview, your self-image, your judgement about yourself and others.
Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe.
Many people begin the process...
Identity-Based Habits
Building these habits means focusing on the type of person you wish to become rather than the outcome you wish to achieve.
Your current behaviors are simply a reflection of your current identity. To change your behavior for good, you need to start believing new things about yourself...
Habits Shape Your Identity
Your actions define who you are. Our habits are a reflection of our identity. The more we repeat a behavior, the more we reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.
For example: if you make your bed every day, you are reinforcing the identity of someone who is...
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