The most general and important question - "How to stick with good habits every day"
Simple answer is by - " HABIT TRACKING "
This has helped Benjamin Franklin and even comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Benefits of habit tracking are -
1. it create visual cue that remind you to act.
2. it motivates as you see progress
3. it feel satisfying
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We all want immediate results. But this book elobrately discussed that the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, there is probability that end consequence is disastrous.
So, we should focus on long term pleasure rather then immediate one.
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We do we repeat any habit or behavior?
The answer is "satisfaction". We tend to repeat those behavior when the experience is satisfying. Conversely, if such experience is not satisfying then we have little reason to repeat.
This pleasure and satisfaction tecahe our brains that the behavior is worth remembering and repeating.
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James Clear has mentioned about "four laws of behaviour change" -
- make it obvious
- make it attractive
- make it easy
- make it satisfying
These four laws are apt to inculcate new habit.
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Story of Victor Hugo, when he has to finish a book in less than a year. How did he plan to beat his procrastination?
"Commitment device" is the answer to all, who is struggling to follow through on desired plan.
It is choice that a person make in present that control his action inthe future.
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We often find it hard to get rid of bad habits or inculcate new good habit. It is because that bad habit has been
- embedded with us from so long time
- getting rid requires lot of effort and motivation.
Same works with good habit. New good habit required lot of motivation and efforts.
Most effecive way-
Reducing friction and making the habit easier and simple. Fit the habit into flow of your life.
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We want outcome not the habit!
In reality, we don't want any habit rather we want outcome from that habit. We develop habit as a way to fulfill outcome.
For example, we want to meditate in order to improve focus and to stay calm. Here, we want the outcome from mediation i.e. improve focus and stay calm.
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It requires less or minimum of effort and energy to watching movie, scrolling social network sites but at same time studying books, exercising or meditating daily required lot of energy and motivation.
In both cases "energy" similar. One requires less energy, on other hand other require more energy.
Therefore, we as human follow, the Law of Least Effort i.e. people will do work which requires least amount of work.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
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