The limits of habits
Habit-building is a powerful tool for self-improvement. But the power of the tool can also create some overreach. In one way, habits will fail to form.
In other circumstances, habits are not the right way of thinking for making progress on some goals.
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Benefits of Habits
A well-crafted set of habits ensures we reach our goals with incremental steps.
- Habits can lead to overshooting our goals. A habit of reading a page a day can lead to reading more on some days, and so finish that book sooner.
- After building a habit, it ...
Why habits work better than goals
- Goals rely on things not always under our control like health and emotional stability. Habits are more automated & free up our brain for other things.
- Goals rely on willpower and self-discipline. Once created, habits don't depend on motivation.
"Benefits" of bad habits
All of the habits that you have right now — good or bad — are in your life because they provide a benefit to you, even if they are bad for you in other ways.
And because bad habits provide some type of benefit in your life, it's very difficult to simply eliminate them.
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