Episode 6 – Habits 1 of 4
Book: Making Habits, Breaking Habits By: Jeremy Dean
- Habits are repeated behaviors with little to no conscious intention.
- A minimum of ⅓ of our waking life is powered by our unconscious, where we operate on auto-pilot
- A survey conducted in the 80s, at the University of Scranton, found 60% of 213 people surveyed,
weren’t able to stick to their New Year’s resolutions.
- Habits are strongly influenced by our environment
- Training new habits requires patience
- Most of our behavior is influenced by our unconscious mind
- We register a number of clues, often without noticing it
- Having certain routines makes us feel safer
- Change a habit by replacing it with a different one
- Performing actions unconsciously can lead to slips
- Habits related to the Internet can turn into addictions
- Use the WOOP method to form a new habit
- Wish – State what you wish to change
- Outcome – what do you wish to happen
- Obstacle – What will stop you
- Plan- how are you going to overcome your obstacle
- Adopt good habits and become happier
- You can manipulate your habits
- Determine your motivation.
- Next, remember to repeat your actions, as repetition leads to automation.
- The Habit Loop
- Trigger
- Routine
- Reward
- The more you do a habit the more ingrained it becomes in your mind.
- You can’t ever break an old habit.
- You can manipulate the habit
- Hebb’s law and: Neurons that fire together, wire together.
- Quantum zeno effect. – a system can be frozen in its state, if continuously observed.
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