Habits
What the research on habit formation actually supports
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Habits
The routines that decide most outcomes long before any decision is made.
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Habits
A habit is a cue and a routine, and the cue is the part you can move
Behaviour that runs automatically is triggered by context rather than chosen in the moment, which is why rearranging the context works better than resolving harder.
By Gautam Pillai · · 3 min read
Habits
If-then plans are the least glamorous thing that keeps working
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Habits
Friction decides more than motivation does
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Habits
A streak is a motivation device with a failure mode built in
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Habits
Experience only teaches when the feedback has three properties
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Habits
Practice explains less of expert performance than the famous number implied
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Habits
Goals set on outcomes leave you nothing to do on Tuesday
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Habits
Paying for something people already wanted to do can backfire
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Habits
Switching between tasks costs more than the interruption itself
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Habits
Running an experiment on yourself without fooling yourself
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Habits
Keeping a change going is a different problem from starting one
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