Atomic habits How to Find and Fix the Causes of Your Bad Habits
• “Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices. Habits are attractive when we associate them with positive feelings, and we can use this insight to our advantage rather than to our detriment.”
• “A craving is the sense that something is missing. It is the desire to change your internal state. A craving is just a specific manifestation of a deeper underlying motive. Your brain did not evolve with a desire to smoke cigarettes or to check Instagram or to play video games. At a deep level, you simply want to reduce uncertainty and relieve anxiety, to win social acceptance and approval, or to achieve status.”
• “Look at nearly any product that is habit-forming and you’ll see that it does not create a new motivation, but rather latches onto the underlying motives of human nature.
- Find love and reproduce = using Tinder”
- Win social acceptance and approval = posting on Instagram
- Achieve status and prestige = playing video games”
• “The key to finding and fixing the causes of your BAD habits is to reframe the associations you have about them. And for making a GOOD habit It’s not easy, but if you can reprogram your predictions, you can transform a hard habit into an attractive one.”
• “A craving is the sense that something is missing. It is the desire to change your internal state. A craving is just a specific manifestation of a deeper underlying motive. Your brain did not evolve with a desire to smoke cigarettes or to check Instagram or to play video games. At a deep level, you simply want to reduce uncertainty and relieve anxiety, to win social acceptance and approval, or to achieve status.”
• “Look at nearly any product that is habit-forming and you’ll see that it does not create a new motivation, but rather latches onto the underlying motives of human nature.
- Find love and reproduce = using Tinder”
- Win social acceptance and approval = posting on Instagram
- Achieve status and prestige = playing video games”
• “The key to finding and fixing the causes of your BAD habits is to reframe the associations you have about them. And for making a GOOD habit It’s not easy, but if you can reprogram your predictions, you can transform a hard habit into an attractive one.”
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Change the perspective when one is trying to inculcate a new habit, instead of saying "I have to workout" which indirectly gives an impression that it is being forced on to you say "It's time to build a stronger version of me"
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