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Building a habit
Started by alexanderisora · 4 February 2020 · 3 posts
alexanderisora#1 · 4 February 2020 Hey. I’m reading the book “Don’t shoot the Dog!” about training humans and animals. I want to learn ore about how my brain works and how to hack that lazy guy.
I learned the fundamental habit-building mechanism: trigger-action-reward. Building such systems seems like a very fun and creative thing to do - especially if you enjoy programming.
Since I’m a venturous man so I decided to build a chain of habits, not a single one.
A chain is when an action works as a trigger to another action. Here is an example of my habits chain:- Trigger: finishing morning teeth brushing.
- Action chain: jogging 5 km + stretching + meditation 5 min.
- Reward: checking my social networks (new likes and comments - m-m-m sweet!) and taking a breakfast.
Curious to see how it goes!
alexanderisora#2 · 4 February 2020 What are your favourite habit building mechanisms?
alexanderisora#3 · 13 April 2020 Well, I built no habits lmao. I’ve failed once again. A habit requires a lot of energy at the beginning which I do not have at the moment :sleepy: