Habit Formation

A habit can be viewed as a way of adapting to an environment, or to solve a recurring problem.

4 stages of habits:

• Physical Cue (Make it obvious/invisible): Raw data that gets your attention, place cues related to good habits, hide cues related to bad habits.
• Craving (Make it attractive/unattractive): Interpret the data in a way that makes good habits attractive, bad habits unattractive.
• Response (Make it easy/difficult): Reduce friction between you and good habits, and increase friction for bad habits. E.g. put your phone in another room.
• Reward (Make it satisfying/unsatisfying): Make sure you immediately feel the reward.

Make it as easy as possible to get started, then you can do more/improve later on, and also make the habits small (the habit should be the first 2 minutes, e.g. sitting infront of pen and paper, instead of writing) so as to ditch the all or nothing mentality.