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The benefits of a bedtime routine
How to improve your sleep quality
How to create a relaxing sleep environment
Changing and creating habits
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it hard, even impossible to do. And the best way to create a good habit is to automate it so you never have to think about it again.
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Locking in good habits
- Nutrition: Use smaller plates to reduce caloric intake.
- Sleep: Remove your television from the bedroom.
- Productivity: Delete games and social media apps from the phone.
- Happiness: Get a dog.
- Finance: Call your service providers (cable, electric...
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Habits that benefit from automation
Automation is useful for behaviors that happen too infrequently to become habitual: Things you have to do monthly or yearly (rebalancing your investment portfolio or e.g.) are never repeated frequently enough to become a habit, so they benefit in particular from technology “remembering” to do the...
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The Downside of Automation
Technology creates a level of convenience that can work against us: Binge watching becomes a habit because it takes more effort to stop looking at the screen than to continue doing so. Instead of pressing a button to advance to the next episode, Netflix or YouTube will autoplay it for you.
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Make Good Habits Inevitable and Bad Habits Impossible
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