First we make the habits, then the habits make us.
This book by @cduhigg offers a great understanding on how we can transform our everyday lives by managing our habits.
Here's a thread with my top 10 takeaways:
This book by @cduhigg offers a great understanding on how we can transform our everyday lives by managing our habits.
Here's a thread with my top 10 takeaways:
1. Unconsciousness
40 percent of the actions performed by humans each day aren’t decisions, but habits.
Habits are stronger than their written intentions.
40 percent of the actions performed by humans each day aren’t decisions, but habits.
Habits are stronger than their written intentions.
2. Doing
Champions don’t do extraordinary things, they do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react.
They follow the habits they’ve learned.
Champions don’t do extraordinary things, they do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react.
They follow the habits they’ve learned.
3. Cycle
There’s a three-stage loop: cue, routine, reward. When I see cue, I will do routine to get a reward.
Once you’re aware of how it works, you’re halfway to changing it.
There’s a three-stage loop: cue, routine, reward. When I see cue, I will do routine to get a reward.
Once you’re aware of how it works, you’re halfway to changing it.
4. Changing
It’s easier to convince someone to adopt a new behavior if there is something familiar at the beginning and end.
To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
It’s easier to convince someone to adopt a new behavior if there is something familiar at the beginning and end.
To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
5. Enablers
Keystone habits encourage change by creating structures that help other habits to flourish.
Good sleep = morning exercise = healthy breakfast = productive day.
Keystone habits encourage change by creating structures that help other habits to flourish.
Good sleep = morning exercise = healthy breakfast = productive day.
6. Willpower
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
Instead of deciding not to eat junk, don’t buy it instead.
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
Instead of deciding not to eat junk, don’t buy it instead.
7. Agency
Giving employees a sense of agency can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
Rather than telling them to follow some rules, people want to be in control of their lives.
Giving employees a sense of agency can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
Rather than telling them to follow some rules, people want to be in control of their lives.
8. On You
If you believe you can change, if you make it a habit, the change becomes real.
Your habits are what you choose them to be.
If you believe you can change, if you make it a habit, the change becomes real.
Your habits are what you choose them to be.
9. Opportunities
Wise executives seek moments of crisis, or create the perception of them.
Cultivating the sense that something must change, until everyone is ready to overhaul the patterns they live with each day.
Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits.
Wise executives seek moments of crisis, or create the perception of them.
Cultivating the sense that something must change, until everyone is ready to overhaul the patterns they live with each day.
Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits.
10. Action
The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.
The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.
These are my top takeaways from this book on habits. What I believe ultimately changes our lives.
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