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Ethan O.

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Conditioning a habit

2 main ways you can condition a habit:

Classical conditioning: a paired association with a trigger and a behavior. Going to the gym after you wake up each morning is this kind of habit.
Operant conditioning: you not only associate a trigger with a behavior, but you reward that pairing, to accelerate the habit-forming process.

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What's the Best Way to Make a Habit? Comparing Seven Different Approaches | Scott H Young

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How Important is Growth? | Scott H Young

There's two common ways you can approach working on your goals and habits: The first is progressive. This is where you start off easy, but make it a little bit harder each time, until you can eventually do very difficult things, with a lot less effort. The second is consistent.

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The 2 ways you can approach your habits: Progressive and Consistent

Progressive. You start off easy, make it a little bit harder each time, until you eventually do very difficult things, with a lot less effort.
Consistent. Do the same...

Progressive habits are about managing growth, while consistent habits are are about managing decline. Progressive habits are less st...

Progressive habits are about managing growth, while consistent habits are are about managing decline. Progressive habits are less stable, but offer higher growth. Consistent habits offer lower growth, but are more stable.

When you set up a progressive habit, you’re on a path to improvement

Small, incremental adjustments in difficulty are almost certain to push your level up. The downside with progressive habits is that they are harder to sustain.

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Elena X.

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Should You Target the Minimum? | Scott H Young

Whenever you set a goal, create a new habit or make some plan for your life, there's a few different ways you can go about it The first way is to target the minimum output. The idea here is that you focus on always doing at least a little bit, so that overall, you'll end up doing enough to make it count.

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Ways to improve your life

There are a few different ways you can go about setting a goal or creating a new habit.

Target the minimum output. You focus on always doing at least a little bit so t...

When to Focus on the Minimum

Minimum targeting works well for establishing long-term habits.

A goal of, for instance, doing fifty push-ups every day might not be ideal for fitness, but doing something is better than doing nothing.

Another reason to focus on the minimum is that it assumes the difficulty is in starting. To start a process can often be the hardest. Then you want to set a lower threshold to make starting as easy as possible.

When to Target the Average

Focusing on the average makes sense when you're hoping to sustain something, even if it is not always a perfectly easy and consistent output.

It works when you are already putting in a bit of effort, but want to improve that effort over the long-term.

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5 reasons why you might want to rethink your daily habits - RescueTime

There's no question that building strong daily habits can improve your productivity. However, some people take this to mean that an ideal day is just one long string of "habit stacks." Unfortunately, that's not the case. In fact, there are many situations where maintaining daily habits-even when seemingly positive-has serious downsides.

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Habits Are Not Blind Routines

Conventional wisdom states that strong habits improve our productivity. Daily habits done in an autopilot mode are not the only route to peak performance.

While our habits help us stick to g...

Revisit What You Do Daily

Some of our daily to-dos should not require a constant daily effort and could be optimized further. Look for such habits and if the daily effort is straining you, look for other innovative solutions.
Time and Energy are limited resources, and as we grow, our habits may become obsolete. We could use the same time and energy to explore new and better options.
It is a good idea to pay attention to where we spend our time and see if there is something we do daily but have outgrown long ago.

Consistency and Boredom

Being consistent can also lead to burnout and lack of growth, and to be creative and innovative, we sometimes need a break from our daily activity. When we stop and do something new, we start to be part of a creative process, instead of simply repeating the same thing every day.

The key is to not rely on a rigid consistency but to be resilient enough to withstand any breaks. Our resilient habits are usually the old ones and have some psychological rewards while involving some external accountability.

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