We need to make our habits attractive because it is the expectation of a rewarding experience that motivates to act in the first place.
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
If you work in a job where everyone wears expensive suits, then you’ll be inclined to splurge on one as well.
I find that I often imitate the behavior of those around me without realizing it.
The closer we are to someone, the more likely we are to imitate some of their habits.
Peer pressure is bad only if you’re surrounded by bad influences.
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.
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.
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