the essential guide to hacking habits
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The Essential Guide to
Hacking Habits
Ever Wondered Where Your HabitsCome From?
Say Hello to the massive storehouse of habits,
The Basal Ganglia
The Basal Ganglia stores habits even when we are asleep.
Every time our Habits kick in, our brain powers down
Though automatic and unconscious,Habits are not impossible to change.
The Habit Loop
Every behavior has a loop. It starts with The Cue, triggers a Routine and ends with a Reward.
Cue
Routine
Reward
Hacking Your Habits
Step 1:
Identify Your Cue
Step 2:
Replace The Routine
Step 3:
Maintain The Reward
“Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed.”
Suggested Reading:
The Power of Habit –Charles Duhigg