"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

We automatically engage in so many unproductive activities daily, even though we are aware that they are not productive. It often feels like we don't have control over our actions.
This happens because these actions have become habits, and we do them without thinking about it.

Reclaim Control of Your Life:

The Cue - You encounter a trigger (such as a notification on your phone).
The Craving - You desire to respond to the trigger (for example, you want to check the notification).
The Response - You take action (like grabbing your phone and checking the notification).
The Reward - You satisfy your craving (receiving a dopamine hit from a text message from your friends).

The Process:

<ul>
<li>Many people make the mistake of trying to stop the response and reward associated with bad habits, which requires a lot of self-discipline.</li>
<li>Instead, we should focus on eliminating the cue (for instance, turning your phone on 'Do Not Disturb') or making the reward unattractive (by remembering the negative effects of the bad habits).</li>
<li>Additionally, replacing bad habits with good ones can be a successful strategy.</li>
</ul>

How to Break Bad Habits:

Bad habits are most destructive obstacle to self improvement and success

Your life is in disarray. You can't seem to sit down and work, or stick to the promises you made to yourself. This is how to reclaim full control of your life. This is the power, the beauty and danger of habits and he who masters habits masters his life.

A Full Guide To Habits.

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0:00 Your problem
0:20 The secret?
1:11 They Control you
1:40 The Process
2:13 How to Break bad habits
2:53 Practical Steps
3:46 The Golden rule
4:04 Cue Cutting
4:48 The science behind it
4:58 Make Good Habits
6:30 Conclusion
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Your life is in disarray. You can't seem to sit down and work, or stick to the promises you made to yourself. This is how to reclaim full control of your life. This is the power, the beauty and danger of habits and he who masters habits masters his life.

A Full Guide To Habits.

Show some love ❤

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#selfimprovement  #jspark #study #habits               

0:00 Your problem
0:20 The secret?
1:11 They Control you
1:40 The Process
2:13 How to Break bad habits
2:53 Practical Steps
3:46 The Golden rule
4:04 Cue Cutting
4:48 The science behind it
4:58 Make Good Habits
6:30 Conclusion
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 ♪ massobeats - taro swirl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QutwEFKtvPQ

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How to make or break any habit.

How to Make or Break Any Habit

<ul><li>Being articulate with your words means being able to express yourself freely with more vivid and expressive words.</li><li>Articulate speech is associated with wide vocabulary and well formed sentences.</li></ul>

What is articulate?

<ul><li>Observer someone who you think to be articulate and witty</li><li>After observing their speech, you will notice some patterns or "combos" and certain words that the speaker uses.</li><li>You will also notice other details like the pauses they take, the words they us often, how they often start any conversation etc </li><li>After observing them, try to copy these "combos" in your own speech</li></ul>

Step 1: who is your favorite speaker?

<ul><li>Use the speech patterns you observed in your own conversations. </li><li>You can also try to explain any topic to yourself using these "combos"</li><li>You should try to take inspiration for multiple speakers to expand and form your own speaking style</li></ul>

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How To Be MORE Articulate

<ul><li>Reading strategy have more importance than reading techniques for difficult texts - The actual time consuming process is the processing of difficult text and not the reading speed</li><li>Speed reading and other reading techniques require more concentration hence making it less sustainable for longer texts</li></ul>

Reading Technique vs Reading Strategy

Sub - Vocalizing<ul><li>muttering, mouthing or internal monologue. </li><li>Reducing sub - vocalization leads to faster reading but poor processing of information. Sub - vocalization reduces the cognitive load and helps process complex information quickly.</li></ul>

Reading Techniques

<ul><li>Using your peripherical vision to read more words at once. Relax your pupils while reading to widen your vision. </li><li>Grouping words automatically shuts off sub - vocalizing</li><li>Your eyes moves slower while grouping words but we take more information in less time</li><li>energy and time efficient technique</li></ul>

Chunking

<ol><li>Know when to use the reading techniques of grouping and sub-vocalizing - Text with predictable or less valuable information or text which require less cognitive load</li><li>Take Pause between reading sprints to process the information and look at the big picture. Also try to predict where the text is likely to take you.</li></ol>

Reading Strategy

<ol><li>The processing of information - our brain requires time to process complex or novel information which slows our reading speed</li><li>Exhaustion - If we try to speed read long and difficult text we won't be able to sustain the speed for long period of them. We will require to take breaks. So sustainable reading while taking pauses is the correct way</li></ol>

Obstacles while reading difficult texts

<ol><li>Use narrow columns format while reading texts, it reduces the eye movement. Increasing your reading and processing speed</li><li>Use dull background to reduce the strain on eyes</li></ol>

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I often wish to be able to read lots of non-fiction books, research papers and other texts but It is very time consuming. This is an effort to reduce the time required and increase productivity while studying

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Many speed reading techniques are only suited for low to moderate-difficulty texts. Anyone who has used these techniques will know how difficult it is to sustain them persistently for study sessions that might be several hours long. It can be exhausting!

These are my tips (as someone who has read about 100+ pages of journal articles and textbooks every week for the last 10 years).

NOTE: This is not a FULL system. You still need to use other studying techniques for good encoding and retrieval, facilitated with a good note-taking system. Other techniques like scaffolding and smart skimming can also be useful.

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