Habits
🛎️ The Five Habit Cues: What Triggers Your Behaviors?
By understanding the five universal triggers that initiate our behaviors—Time, Location, Preceding Event, Emotional State, and Other Peop...
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📝 Awareness First: The Habit Scorecard
The Habit Scorecard is an essential tool for auditing daily actions, helping individuals identify habits that support or hinder their goa...
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🚗 Autopilot Advantages: How Habits Save Mental Fuel
Autopilot routines significantly reduce cognitive load, allowing the brain to conserve mental energy for more complex tasks. By establish...
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💪 Willpower vs. Habit: Why Automation Beats Force
Effective self-control is less about resisting temptations and more about automating beneficial habits that reduce reliance on willpower....
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⏳ Habit-Formation Timeline: Why the “21 Days” Rule Is a Myth
The common belief that it takes 21 days to form a habit is misleading, as research shows it can actually take an average of 66 days or lo...
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🔁 Repetition Is Key (Not Perfection)
Repetition and consistency are the keys to forming lasting habits, as small daily actions are more effective than infrequent, intense eff...
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🎯 The Four Laws of Behavior Change
In this overview, I outline the four essential laws of behavior change, emphasizing how to effectively modify habits by manipulating cues...
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⚙️ Reduce Friction, Add Friction – The Path-of-Least-Resistance Blueprint
The author emphasizes the importance of managing friction in our habits to facilitate positive behaviors and discourage negative ones. By...
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🌱 Environment Design: Make Good Cues Obvious & Bad Cues Invisible
Environment design is crucial in shaping our habits by making good cues obvious and bad cues invisible. By strategically modifying our su...
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