Habits: How to be successful every day | Dan Ariely, Gretchen Rubin & more | Big Think

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Habits: How to be successful every day
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Habits, both good and bad, are pre-made decisions that makeup around 40 percent of our day and require no real conscious thought. In order to regain control, resist environmental temptations, and reduce your bad habits, it helps to understand the three parts of a habit loop: the cue (or trigger), the behavior itself, and the reward.

Gretchen Rubin, Dan Ariely, Charles Duhigg, Adam Alter, and others explain how you can successfully hack your habits by shifting away from goal-based achievement markers to system-based processes; learning the difference between rewards and treats; and thinking less about immediate gains and more about long-term benefits.

Regardless of what some people might try to sell you, there is no "magic answer" when it comes to changing habits, says Rubin. You have to find what works best for you.

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GRETCHEN RUBIN: The key thing about a habit really comes down to decision-making because sometimes people think about it's something that you do repeatedly, or you know, it unfolds over time. But really the key thing about a habit is that you're not making a decision. You're not deciding whether to brush your teeth. You're not deciding whether to use a seatbelt. You're not deciding whether to go to the gym first thing in the morning. You've already decided, and the advantage of a habit is that once something's on automatic pilot, then the brain doesn't have to use any energy, or willpower to make a decision. You've already made that decision. You're just moving forward. And so, it happens easily without any thought, without any willpower, without any effort. You're just on cruise control, and then you can do what you wanna get done. Habit is like the invisible architecture of everyday life. Research shows that something like 40% of what we do every day we do in pretty much the same way and in the same context. So it's easy to see that if you have habits that work for you, you're much more likely to be happier, healthy, and more productive. If you have habits that don't work for you, it's really gonna drag you down, because such a big part of our days is taken up by habits.

CHARLES DUHIGG: And this gets to the way that habits work, which is that there's this thing called the habit loop. There's three parts to it. There's first a cue, which is a trigger for a behavior, and then the behavior itself, which we usually refer to as a routine, or scientists refer to as routine, and then there's the reward, and the reward is actually why the habit happens in the first place. It's how your brain sort of decides should I remember this pattern for the future or not? And the cue and the reward become neurologically intertwined until a sense of craving emerges that drives your behavior. And this actually explains so much of our lives, and not only our lives, but also how companies function.

DAN ARIELY: So what happened is that the world around us is designed to tempt us. You know, one of the principles from behavioral economics is choice architecture, the idea that we, when we are placed in an environment, we make decisions as a function of the environment we're in. Think about the environment that we're in. What is it about? Is it about our long-term health? Or is it about the short-term profits of that environment? You walk down the street, there's a coffee shop. What does this coffee shop want? They want you to be healthy in 30 years from now, or do you want them to, they, do they want you to buy another coffee right now? Dunkin' Donuts, what is their optimization function? Are they trying to get you to be healthy in 20 years, or to buy another donut now? Your cell phone, what is it trying to do, to get you to be a productive citizen in two years, or to check your phone a couple of more times today? So what happened is that we are in an environment that tempts us all the time. These temptations are only increasing, and because of that, we fail.

RUBIN: One of the mysteries of habits is why do we persist in having bad habits when we know they're not good for us, when they know they don't make us happy? But you know, there's usually multiple things going. Maybe it's what you want right this minute versus what you want on the long-term. Or maybe you want two things that are in conflict.

JULIA GALEF: One example of rationality in action, just to give you a sense of what it looks like, and how it's relevant, back in...

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What's your method for breaking a bad habit?

bigthink
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I've got a bad habit of watching videos on how to break bad habits.

crazyprayingmantis
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The 1% who's reading this may all your dreams come true. This 2021

POSITIVEMILLIONAIRE
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Habits are the little steps that bring you closer to your goals, every single day.

nicoleonfeels
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You totally had me until you said 5 minutes to surf the web. What on earth could be found in 5 minutes? It may take 5 minutes to find the thing that takes 20 minutes to watch. This video was longer than 5 minutes.😂
I’ll take the 45 minutes to the hour.
That being said, systems over goals is great advice.

jenpoole
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Wonderful addition to my knowledge on habits. I so love this video.

Also, I would have wished James Clear was on the list of contributors, it would have been more packed.

However, these guys did great. I didn't know Gretchen was big on habits before this morning I read her quote on Ann Handley's Everybody Writes, then saw her here on this video.

thekcumeh
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What is the purpose of having multiple speakers, jumping from one to another? It is very distracting, keeping us from concentrating and prevents deep understanding. The speakers may have a great deal of wisdom, but we can not really learn. I guess this is self - help psychology designed for a attention deficient world.

jeraldbaxter
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They focus on being productive rather than being busy. ...

They wake up early. ...

They focus on being with the best team. ...

They focus on making small and continuous improvements. ...

They meditate. ...

They take care of their bodies. ...

They have balanced lives

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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." -G.K.Chesterton "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." -Michael John Bobak
Hi guys! Let me just share to you a short story. We own a cookie shop business in our college town. When we first started it, we just graduated college and were living in our car with very little direction, just a huge passion to be successful. I started it out of a local bagel shop in their off hours at night with my boyfriend, Bran. It was a crazy experience but it worked! We became a success! And how we have our first storefront location (a second one currently under construction but launching soon!) We started it to fund a year long backpacking trip around the world and to be successful while living the life of our dreams.

Cassiearan
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Hope you successfully follow your new year resolution after watching this video

hellomate
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I think the biggest influence on your own habits are the habits of the people you spend the most time with. And also their understanding of the influence of habits on their own lives. Be very careful about who you spend time with. VERY careful. And be ruthless in cutting out those who have a negative effect in your life. Some have no interest in changing their habits or understand why others would want to change theirs. It is very hard to convince another of the value of your own habits as only you have access to the 'architecture' within your own life. So that can relate to your age, physical attributes, financial status, employment security, geographical location, and many other aspects besides. No one except you can see this overall picture.

'The man who mixes with other people a good deal either for talk or for a wine-party or generally for social purposes, must needs either grow like them himself or convert them to his likeness; for if you put a quenched coal by one that is burning, either it will put the burning 'one out, or will catch fire from it. As the risk then is so serious, you must be cautious in indulging lightly in the society of the untrained, for it is impossible to rub up against one who is covered with soot and not get sooty oneself.'

Epictetus

TomUK
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The video format is overwhelming. Lots of useful information but with no breaks for us to internalize. Overall great principles for dealing with our life.

melkaouianas
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This is a pearl! 7:30 - 8:10 or so hit me hard. I will take care of those important advices.
Those should be tought in school to help EVERY young ones and preventing problems like procrastination and losing faith about the future (because, You know, "success" and "mastery" usually are achieved after a long time of hard work [that's one of the reasons of why some people quit going to gym or similar: after 1 week they do not see a result, then they lose the *ispiration* and quit, quitting also the _principle_ behind {because they had never believed in}.])

marcoottina
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Ya I quit pornography and marijuana nicotine and some other bad habbit.

jkjk-yvyl
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Funny to have this pop into the feed after the silly big think episode trying to convince people that they have no free will.

LeviConquersAll
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This video is perfect for me. Very Useful for everyday life.

tanvirkhan
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My idea of success is pizza for dinner while drinking a beer.

AesirUnlimited
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I have a bad habit of watching videos like this on youtube....

JosueMartins
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This kind of topics should be in education curriculums.

AbdallahBotan
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Changing your mindset may give you a 'quick' win but changing your HABITS is what will give you results that STICK 🙏🏽

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