This episode is my argument for why I don't believe in habits. Not against consistency (consistency is everything) but against the conventional method for getting there: the trigger-behavior-reward loop, the 21-day calendar, the check marks on the wall. 

What I've been calling the Click Method is what I saw actually work. Something shifts in how you see a behaviour, and after that, the old way stops making sense. No willpower battle. No white-knuckling. The desired behavior just becomes the obvious choice. I walk through where I've seen it happen, make the case for one of the most under-appreciated books of the last 50 years, and connect the whole thing back to why sprint retrospectives matter more than most people realize.

In This Episode

• Why the 21-day calendar method doesn't produce the results it promises
• The Click Method
• Why borrowing someone else's habits rarely sticks (it's a values mismatch, not a discipline problem)
• The Allen Carr smoking book and what makes it a different category of self-help
• How math class explains behavioural change better than most productivity books
• Why sprint retrospectives are more important than sprint planning
• How to find the person whose insight might unlock your own click

Chapters:
00:00 Traditional habit-building advice doesn't work 
05:13 Does it mean people can't change? 
07:15 The Click Method
10:35 Self-engineering "The Click" 
14:16 Smoking example
17:41 School example
18:57 If you are trying to build consistency

The Book Mentioned

"The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr. 

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