How to BREAK Habits - Neuroscientist Explains Effective Tool - Andrew Huberman Lab

Science backed neuroscience and biology for how to break habits that are no longer serving you, so that you can make progress in your life!

I am using the Tools of Stanford Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman to improve my skillset of developing habits. Part 6 in this Habit series - a fantastic, easy to understand breakdown of How to Break Bad Habits. Simple, easy tool to use to make it incredibly effective to stop bad habits.

I am using some of the amazing content from Andrew Huberman channel to share the ideas and tools for making progress to achieve desired habits. His full episode for discussing Habits is below:

I highly encourage everyone to check out his channel!

[sharafkhan]

Thanks a lot for clipping this! Huberman’s videos are so informative but are too long and dense. For you to clip an important topic like this means a lot!

[DanielDouglas]

Last October I couldn't imagine a day without drinking... fast forward to today, I haven't had a drink in MONTHS!

[bryanandpaul]

I want to take a moment to thank our viewers and community! @BryanandPaul is a small channel right now. This video on breaking "bad" habits is receiving tremendous attention for our channel relative to our past content. We are still learning in this process of providing value to our community and to a wider audience. Paul and I appreciate the new subscribers, the likes, the comments and engagement from you all!

It is with tremendous gratitude that we thank you all again for taking your valuable your time to listen. We are focused on improving our lives and making progress. We believe the vast majority of people desire similar progress. After all Progress = Happiness! We will continue to learn, grow and make progress; while sharing our successes, challenges and learnings with our community. - Bryan

[marjan]

Designing your environment so the cue/trigger for the hahit becomes invisible & punishing yourself for doing it are one of the most powerfull things IMO

[Utkarshsingh]

It makes such sense. As a chain smoker, I am not interested in finishing the current cigarette (infact, I hate smoking it) but thinking about the next one gives a dopamine hit. And replacing this second cigarette with a positive reinforcement can work in not thinking of the first cigarette at all!

[TheARTY]

In the words of that Jordaan philopher felow, "it isn't about quitting <insert habit here>. Its about having a more meaningful life"

Thus, it comes down to habit replacement IMO. if you starve the bad habit without replacing it with a good one, then you create a vacuum that will inevitably be filled with a relapse

[chole]

this is SO helpful for people with skin picking / excoriation disorder! thank you!

[MarleneChism]

Love it when you are both scientific and “new agey.” 😊

[JustActNormal]

I quit smoking and drinking cold turkey. Imo that's the best way. But detox sucks for about a week

[REALAMERICANMAN]

For me, i had to remove everything. No t.v. no phone no music no meat no dairy no energy drinks.... sometimes no food at cold/hot showers back and forth during it. I drink a lot of herbal tea. Ill do this for about 2 or 3 days at a time right now.

Im definately in a healing phase.

Technically i wasnt even supposed to write this in the comment section... writing in comment section is me looking for some sort of outside reckognition. And its addictive. And right now. Poisonous to me sometimes. I end up in arguements. But i say that so people can see what im going through in this. The purpose of taking away stimulus.. is so i can become more used to having NOTHING, with no expectation of relief. Finally free of everything. And i realize that if i dont eat meat for say a wouldnt i enjoy it way more at the end of the month? Because right now i enjoy NOTHING, because any time i want something i grt up and go get it, im getting bored with this routine.. if i take a hot shower everyday but turn it to cold then back to hot then back to cold .... wouldnt i be more grateful for my warm showers? I actually started to like the cold shower, and turning it back hot was almost annoying. But i knew to do it, because the goal is to "attatch to nothing...." i realized i had a fear of letting go of things.... not physical things.... just everything and anything. So my solution was to take them all away.

I also learned the past is always in FRONT of me the future is inside. 👁

[presidentresident]

This is great information about what to do. I'll try it and see if it works. Whats less clear to me is WHY it works. What does 'create an open loop' mean exactly. And why does attaching a bad habit to a good habit break the bad habit? My first instinct is that the technique he suggests, would just reinforce the bad habit since something positive(presumably you at least feel proud of yourself after performing a good habit) sits at the end of a sequence that always starts with that bad habit...Said a different way: if youre trying to break A to B, why does tacking on B to C not just mean the brain eventually does the complete A to B to C sequence as a habit?

[dnicecoll]

The Plan: Every time I realize I picked up my phone for no reason I will do 10 air squats.

[jz]

Fascinating vid. Is there one on mapping the replacement habit / skipping the bad one?

Anyway, I think I’ll start with going for a quick run around the block after every tub of ice cream ;)

[jaysonwohnne]

thanks for the explanation on how this works.

[SimonEdwardJohns]

I've realised that I intuitively do this! Not for a while and I'll be sure to get back to it now. It feels like you're shaking off the bad habit...

[jgxmumy]

Hmmm, I have my doubts this will work, but I plan to try it

[jeremylink]

I dunno, not much going on here except alot of talk. I stil think the best way of taking controll of yourself is via meditation, and stillness meditation specifically, as it takes you straight into your core self, which is pure awareness and joyfullness. From that point its easier to make choices of whats serving you and whats not. Trying to look from the outside in, is like putting the proverbial cart in front of the horse. All of the dopamine and reflective analysis help to understand whats happening on a scientific leve, l but dont take you to your core SELF

[sooie]

Everyone growing up playing basketball in the inner city has done the rubber band trick when you do something bad while playing basketball

[kaushaleshpandey]

Thank you so much Dr. Huberman. You are a gem 💎

[LissandaEloria]

I have a device that detects snoring and gives the wearer a mild electric shock to prompt them to change sleeping position