How To Build Good Habits?

Energy is precious and in the brain is wired to conserve it whenever possible. It is human nature to follow the Law of Least Effort, which states that when deciding between two similar options, people will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work.

The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.

If you hit the Goldilocks and just right, you can achieve a flow state everytime easily.

This pattern shows up everywhere.

• Cancer spends 80 percent of its life undetectable, then takes over the body in months.
• Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six wee...

The process of behavior change always starts with awareness. You need to be aware of your habits before you can change them.

Pointing-and-Calling raises your level of awareness from a nonconscious habit to a more conscious level by verbalizing your actions.

• Make a list of daily h...

Your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them. The wanting centers in the brain are large than liking centers of the brain. They are often referred to as "hedonic hot spots" , distributed like tiny islands throughout the brain. For instance, research...

In any election, there are going to be votes for both sides. You don't need a unanimous vote to win an election; you just need a majority. It doesn't matter if you cast a few votes for a bad behavior or an unproductive habit. Your goal is simply to win the majority of the time.

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Your actions reveal how badly you want something. If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don't really want it. It's time to have an honest conversation with yourself. Your actions reveal your true motivations.

Imagine a stonecutter relentlessly hammers at his rock, striking it perhaps a hundred times without any sign of a fracture appearing. However, upon delivering the hundred and first blow, the rock astonishingly splits in two. It's evident that it was not that last blow that did it -but all that h...

The consequences of bad habits are delayed while the reward are immediate. Smoking might kill you in ten years, but it reduces stress and eases your nicotine cravings now. Overeating is harmful ur action in the long run but appetizing in the moment.

We all have goals that we would like to achieve and dreams that we would like to fulfill, but it doesn't matter what you are trying become better at, if you only do the work when it's to convenient or exciting, then you'll never be consistent enough to achieve remarkable results.

The habit formation is depend on the frequency of the action, not days. You should ask ‘how many repetitions are required to make a habit automatic?’ Instead of asking ‘how many days it takes to build a habit’.

You often decide what to do next is based on what you just finished doing. Each...