Episode 36

How to Build a Habit

Building and sustaining good habits is one of the more difficult challenges most people face. In this episode, you will learn how to approach the habit-building challenge with specific steps, why the 21-days-to-a-habit concept is a myth, and the critical role of external systems in helping you succeed in building good habits. 

Highlights:

01:17 The more you can make something a habit, the less brain space that it takes up, and the more mental resources that you have available to focus on more interesting and complex issues. 

03:14 Pace yourself and make it as easy as possible just to get started and think about getting a little bit better everyday instead of making a big radical change all at once. 

06:07 Willpower, much as we like to think it is, willpower is not the main component of successful habits. 

08:34 We want a complete task and we know we feel good when we have completed the task. It’s the middle part of building the habit of getting there and making that automatic. 

10:24 Pay more attention to what my automatics are. I just want to pay more attention to what I want to be and see what things I’m doing automatically that I don’t want to be doing and what are the things that I do want to be doing that I need to be working on. 

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