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You commit to some change for 30 days, then tou can go back to your old ways. But having spent thirty days applying a new behavior is often enough to convince you to stick with it.
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The basic process for building all habits is basically the same: you repeatedly condition the behavior you want, over time, until it becomes automatic.
But no habit starts out automatic; there’s a deliberate period, where you must consciously apply yourself to make a certain behavior your default.
Keep track of how many days in a row you’ve successfully followed your habit. As your chain gets longer and longer, you become increasingly committed to the habit.
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The goal is to do it every day (if possible) but if you miss a day, you must do the habit the following day.
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It means practicing the habit a bunch of times in an artificial situation so that it occurs more automatically in real life.
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Ignore the process of creating habits altogether and simply focus on a project that will force them to occur.
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This strategy works by deputizing others to enforce your habit for you.
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Avoid thinking about changing a habit, but instead think about changing your self-conception.
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A project that spans multiple books is helpful to really explore a topic in-depth.
What’s a topic that fascinates you? What would you like to know much more about? The science of persuasion? The history of espionage? Pick a topic and make a cluster of books to add to your list.
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.