The third of The Four Laws of Behavior ChangeThe Four Laws of Behavior Change
Four laws of behavior change are principles for designing better HabitHabit
A habit is a behavior that is performed regularly, sometimes automatically, often unconciously.
Our brain evolved to "implement" habits to reduce the cognitive load of problems that arise over and...s described by [[Atomic Habits]]
Each law of behavior change is tied to one stage of [[Habit Feedback Loop]], telling us h... is to make executing HabitHabit
A habit is a behavior that is performed regularly, sometimes automatically, often unconciously.
Our brain evolved to "implement" habits to reduce the cognitive load of problems that arise over and...s easy. This law focuses on making it as easy as possible to start, and keep doing things that pay off in the long run.
When you start playing a new instrument, even with a huge amount of effort you likely can't make it sound half decent. Over time, the neural pathways in our brain become stronger and the process becomes automatic - you can now likely play well, while maintaining a conversation.
In order for this to happen, we need to make sure we actually do the things we want to develop into habits. Planning your practice schedule and researching about the new instrument is fine and helpful, but only actually playing will get you somewhere. Because of this, when developing a new habit, it's important for us to start repeating it as much as possible as soon as possible - the more repetitions we put in, the more the process becomes automatic.
The problem with the above is that even though we know what's right, it doesn't guarantee that we will do it - usually, people tend to do what's easy instead (The Law of Least Effort).
We can utilize this law by implementing the following solutions:
- This is another rule where Designing Environments for HabitsDesigning Environments for Habits
Design of our environment is a key component in influencing things we do. Let's see how we can utilize this to form good [[Habit]]s and break bad ones, using one positive and one negative habit as ... is crucial: remove as much friction as possible from the desired habits in order to make them easier to execute. Ask yourself a question: "How can we design a world where it's easy to do what's right?" - Two Minute Rule / gateway habits
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