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Habits 101: Understanding the Psychology of Habit Formation

Habits 101: Understanding the Psychology of Habit Formation
Habits 101: Understanding the Psychology of Habit Formation

It is very difficult to form a habit. We try to form a habit but it stays for a brief period and we then again move back to old ones. So to make this process an easy one, let’s go the basics of habits and form the habit for a lifetime.

Let's get started.


What is a Habit?


Before forming a habit, we need to understand the basics of habit. Let us understand what is habit to help in its formation.


  • You need to follow a try, fail, learn and try differently again and again. 


  • Your habits are just a series of automatic solutions that solve the problem.


  • The people who don’t have their habits handled are the ones with the least amount of freedom


  • Building habits in the present allows you to do more of what you want in the future.


How to Form A Habit?


  • Behaviours that are followed by satisfying consequences tend to be repeated and hence the number of reputations increases it resulting in forming a habit.


  • With practice, the useless movements fade away and the useful actions get reinforced. 


  • Habit is a memory of the steps you previously followed to solve a problem in the past.


Steps Taken For Habit Formation


Habit is formed when you release that something needs to change:


  • When an idea triggers to your brain to initiate a behaviour. It is a bit of information that predicts a reward.


  • There is a motivational force behind every habit. Every yearning is linked to a desire to change your internal state. The thoughts, feelings & emotions transform an idea into yearning.


  • The actual habit is to perform and can take the form of any thought or an action.


  • The indication is about noticing the reward


Purpose of Rewards


To build a habit, we need to give rewards to ourselves that give us happiness. Rewards accomplish two purposes.


  • Rewards satisfy us.

  • Rewards teach us.


Question Yourself

Before building a habit, we need to ask questions to yourself and then move forward to build a habit


  1. How can I make it obvious?

  2. How can I make it attractive?

  3. How can I make it easy?

  4. How can I make it satisfying?


Hence, habit is formed when you take action and achieve to change your desire.

The idea triggers yearning that motivates a response which provides a reward that satisfies the craving and ultimately becomes associated with the idea.

After decades of mental programming, we automatically slip into these patterns of thinking and acting.
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