6. Habit Formation (Charles Duhigg)

• To understand your own habits, you need to identify the components of your habit loops. Once you’ve diagnosed the habit loop of a particular behaviour, you can look for ways to supplant old vices with new routines.

There are four steps to doing this:

1. Identify the rout...

• The sequence known as a habit loop are described by three terms: cue, routine and reward.
• The golden rule of habit change design by Duhigg is to keep the cue and reward ande change the routine.
• A modified, more complete way to view this is: trigger -> impulse...

Habits can be changed if we understand their mechanisms.

The basal ganglia, a part of the brain, stores and executes our habits independently of other brain functions, allowing us to perform routines without conscious thought.