Remaining part of a group after achieving a goal is crucial to maintaining your habits.
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual.
Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.
Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire.
The cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them.
Desire is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future.
Distraction is a good thing because you need distractions to practice meditation.
Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself.
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.
It’s easy to be in motion and convince yourself that you’re making progress.
Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done.
You don’t need to map out every feature of a new habit. You just need to practice it.
Both common sense and scientific evidence agree: reptition is a form of change.
This means that simply putting in your reps is one of the most critical steps you can take to encoding a new habit.
When deciding between two similar options, people will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work.
The more energy required, the less likely it is to occur.
You don’t actually want the habit itself. What you really want is the outcome the habits delivers.
If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
Each day is made up of many moments, but it is really a few habitual choices that determine the path you take.
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