Habit Research

Research on Habits from The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg:

There isn’t one formula for changing habits, there are thousands.

Each person’s habits are driven by different cravings. 

Habits are made up of a loop of three parts; a cue, a routine, and a reward. This loop must be identified and understood to address a habit.

The routine is the behavior you want to change (in a bad habit scenario). 

Force a moment of attention. - sometimes this is done by writing something down.

Isolate the routine first, then the reward, then find the cue.

Once you have those things figured out, you can start to shift your behavior… but you need a plan.

Sometimes your plan will fail and it will take repeated experiments and failures to figure out something that works for you.