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Never Miss Twice
The goal is to do it every day (if possible) but if you miss a day, you must do the habit the following day.
Pros:
- Easier to keep up for longer stretches with harder habits.
- Easier to handle on an irregular schedule.
Cons:
- You’ll be much more likely to take days off unnecessarily if you know it’s only two-in-a-row that count.
- If you sometimes do X, and sometimes don’t, it will take longer to make the association automatic.
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Ignore the process of creating habits altogether and simply focus on a project that will force them to occur.
Pros:
- You can often change multiple habits at the same time with less overhead.
- Help you be flexible about adopting and dropping habits
Avoid thinking about changing a habit, but instead think about changing your self-conception.
Pros:
- “I’m a healthy person now,” for example can trigger eating better, exercising more and quitting smoking and drinking all at once.
- If successful, these...
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 th...
This strategy works by deputizing others to enforce your habit for you.
Pros:
- No formal rules or mechanisms are required, just the social pressure from the outside.
- If you find yourself constantly breaking your own commitments, this may be the only
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.
Pros:
- Can handle more significant/difficult behavior changes you might be unli...
It means practicing the habit a bunch of times in an artificial situation so that it occurs more automatically in real life.
Pros:
- For when you think you won’t be able to consciously control your reaction in the real situation without practice.
- When
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.
Pros:
- Maintains habits over a longer timeframe than a 30-day trial.
- Better for thing...
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 ...
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- 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 thing, with the same expectations, each time. You don’t aim for growth, but maintaining the same, s...
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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 that over time, you do enough to make it count.
- Target the average output. ...
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Reading is a habit of compounding growth. When reading, you'll learn more, and you'll generate ideas and motivation for making other changes.
Reading books means you're getting more concentrated thinking on a topic. It's also harder and requires patience and attention than reading an articl...
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