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Habit formation

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A habit is a shortcut, not a choice

You did many things today. You did not choose all of them. Some things you do the same way, in the same place, every day. Those are habits. A habit runs on its own.

habit
A thing you do the same way, in the same spot, without deciding to.
Your guess

Think about everything a person does in one day. How much of it is habit, done the same way in the same place?

Sources

  • Lally et al. (2010), How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world
  • Wood & Neal (2007), A new look at habits and the interface with goals
  • Wood, Quinn & Kashy (2002), Habits in everyday life
  • Graybiel (2008), Habits, rituals, and the evaluative brain
  • Gollwitzer (1999), Implementation intentions
  • Wood, Tam & Witt (2005), Changing circumstances, disrupting habits
  • Milkman, Minson & Volpp (2014), Holding the Hunger Games hostage at the gym (temptation bundling)
  • Duhigg (2012), The Power of Habit
  • Clear (2018), Atomic Habits
  • Fogg (2019), Tiny Habits