![]() Then, to form new habits, you must identify when and where your will perform them. The process starts with generating awareness of your current habits. To perform better habits, we must make the cues of our good habits obvious and the cues of our bad habits invisible. The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. ![]() To create good habits (The Four Laws of Behavior Change).These steps are Cue → Craving → Response → Reward. A habit can be broken down into discrete events that turns into a self-reinforcing loop that drives our constant behavior.To change your identity, you change your habits. Thus, to engineer lasting change, we can cast small votes toward a certain identity through systems of small, repeatable actions.In the simplest sense, we are what we repeatedly do. From our constantly repeated behavior systems our personal identity is born. Habits are the basic building blocks of our behavioral systems.The only way to become great is to fall in love with the habits everyday and learn to be endlessly fascinated by the same thing. So we need to create variable rewards, so that there is a spike of dopamine and accelerates habit formation. We desire novelty - bad habits are addictive because they constantly provide novelty. We tend to give up habits because they fail to delight us, after we form a routine. He says - “the greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. While formation of habits forms a large part of this book, the author also dwells on sustaining a habit. And such little improvements and challenges can keep you engaged - achieving a flow state. A challenge that appears to be within some reasonable reach if you put in the effort. He says that our brain loves challenges, but only when the challenges are within the optimal zone of difficulty, a bit on the edge. And the guidance is also on how aggressive or realistic the habits need to be. In fact, the author debunks the idea of goals but focuses more on systems. The book places lots of importance on the “how” of developing habits, giving some guidance on even how to formulate the goals (or rather systems). What makes this book interesting are these specific observations and analysis from some of the examples from history, arts etc. And while digging deep into these aspects, he also busts several myths around habit formation, like this: To master a habit, the key is repetition, not perfection. Habits are modern day solutions to ancient desires, new versions of old vices. Many products are developed with an aim to meet such innate cravings (For example: Instagram - win social acceptance). In a chapter, he says that every behavior has a surface level craving and a deeper underlying motive - survival, conserving energy, social acceptance, reproduction, etc. In the course of these practical tips, the author presents quite a few thought provoking arguments, which you might nod a yes to. For craving, he suggests ideas like temptation bundling (like get on treadmill while watching Netflix). He also advocates planting visual cues all along the spaces so that the environment is designed right for habit formation. For example: For cues, the author covers aspects like location, time and also what he calls habit stacking (piling a new habit on top of an existing habit). Rewards - feedback, the satisfaction for cravings habits need to be made satisfying.įor each of the above elements in the framework, the author provides practical advice on what levers could be changed, to make those elements effective. Make it easy does not mean easy things - but to remove as much friction that stands in the way of doing things you want to do. Response - actions we take habits need to be made little easy to start with and then little hard incrementally, so that they don’t become too hard in one go.
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