Came across this article. Hope it helps someone.

All of us are controlled by habits good or bad.

Gambling, over eating, not exercising, too much of gaming etc all of it same same. Habit.

So . . . .

Hack your habits

It's one thing to do something good once, it's quite another to embrace it as a consistent aspect of your life. Luckily, four simple steps can get you there.

Habits are built on four pillars: cue, craving, response, reward.

A cue lets your brain know a reward is close by; a craving is your motivation to act on the cue; a response is the action itself; and the reward is what you get for performing the action.

How can you use this information? If you want to create a good habit: Make the cue obvious; make the craving attractive; make the response easy; and make the reward satisfying.

Let's say you're feeling stressed (cue). You want to relieve the stress (craving), so you pull out your handy pocket journal and write a few words about how you're feeling (response).

The result is that you gain emotional clarity (reward), and writing in your journal becomes a positive trigger when encountering stress (habit formed).

If you want to break a bad habit, just flip the above: Make the cue invisible; make the craving unattractive; make the response difficult; and make the reward unsatisfying.

Link to full article here

https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/elon-musk-i...to-science.html

This post has been edited by trinity3: Sep 26 2022, 08:26 PM