159. HABITS: A Design For Doing And Undoing

To master the art of doing, you need to create habits and routines in the brain that are relatively resistant to quitting and paralysis-by-analysis.For the routine to become automatic, we need to design it with such conscious and deliberate precision that it's read made to run on autopilot. Step 1: Learn the pattern, crack the code A. Triggers B. Rituals C. Rewards Step 2. Make watertight rituals The ritual is the sequence of behavior steps you need in order to actually create a habit. You need to know exactly how it unfolds for you, and this takes some self-experimentation. If you're trying to start a new habit, you should design the ritual so it has a good chance of becoming automatic. Step 3. Know the rewards that do and don't work for you For some people, the reward is the driving force behind the habit. If the action you're trying to do isn't pleasurable or enjoyable, we need to find away to make it so. Learn more in this episode...