📖The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business

authors

Duhigg, Charles

year

2012

• Habits are unconscious and form even if memory cannot

• Habits seem to form in basal ganglia

• Habit loop (p.19) → Habit loop

  • Cue—trigger, when and what habit to use

  • Routine

  • Reward—whether habit worth remembering

• There are much more habits than we usually think of. Almost every often repeated decision becomes a habit. → Habit is unconscious behavior

• You can change the habit if you keep cue and reward the same. You can change routine however you like. (p.72) → You can change habit routine as long as you keep cue and reward the same

• New habits may fail at critical times unless you believe that everything will be fine (p.82-86)

• Habit cannot be eradicated, only replaced. (p.92)

• Belief is essential and it’s easier to get it in the group of people (p.93)

• Willpower is easier to maintain if you plan ahead for adversities.

• We are responsible for our habits because we know they exist, what they can lead to, and we can try and change them. → We are accountable for our habits

Backlinks

• 📝 Habit is unconscious behavior
• 📝 You can change habit routine as long as you keep cue and reward the same
• 📝 Habit loop
• 📝 We are accountable for our habits
• 📝 Habits