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Are Habits Overhyped Here’s What Really Works…

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“Are Habits Overhyped? Here’s What Really Works”


“Habits vs. Routines – There is a Difference”


“So what are habits, really?”


“…habit works by generating an impulse to do a behavior with little or no conscious thought.” Habits are simply how the brain learns to do things without deliberation. These impulses can be put to good use, but only certain behaviors can become habits.


“Building a habit is relatively simple — just harness the impulse. For new habits to take hold, provide a clear trigger, make the behavior easy to do, and ensure it occurs frequently. For example, by completely removing unhealthy food from my home and eating the same thing every morning, my diet became a healthy habit. I extracted the decision making process out of what I eat at home.


“However, if the behavior requires a high degree of intentionality, effort, or deliberation, it is not a habit. Although proponents of habits tout them as miracle cures for doing things we’d rather not do, I’m sorry to say that’s snake oil. All sorts of tasks aren’t habits and never will be. By definition, doing things that are effortful aren’t habits.


“… A routine is a series of behaviors regularly practiced. Routines don’t care if you feel an urge or not, they just need to get done.”

http://www.nirandfar.com/2016/01/habits-overhyped-heres-really-works.html

Ellen Langer a Harvard University psychologist who studies…

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Ellen Langer, a Harvard University psychologist who studies mindfulness, described it this way:


“Mindfulness is the process of actively noticing new things. When you do that, it puts you in the present. It makes you more sensitive to context and perspective. It’s the essence of engagement. And it’s energy-begetting, not energy consuming. The mistake most people make is to assume it’s stressful and exhausting—all this thinking. But what’s stressful is all the mindless negative evaluations we make and the worry that we’ll find problems and not be able to solve them.”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-mindfulness-turbocharge-your-career-dr-travis-bradberry

A few years ago Jeff Bezos stopped…

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“A few years ago Jeff Bezos stopped by …


“… he shared an enlightened observation about people who are “right a lot”.


“He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.


“He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.


“This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a well formed point of view, but it means you should consider your point of view as temporary.”


“What trait signified someone who was wrong a lot of the time? Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.’

https://medium.com/@jasonfried/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos-28b3c2938968