Productivity
Breaking Habits
An easy and proven way to break bad habits.
Useful When
- You want to break a bad habit
- You want to increase the chances of breaking a habit
About
There are four steps to ensure that you keep repeating a behavior and make the habit stick. By inverting all four steps you can easily break a bad habit:
- Make it obvious → Make it invisible
- Make it attractive → Make it less attractive
- Make it easy → Make it hard
- Make it satisfying → Make is dissatisfying
This framework helps you to think through each step, so you can break a bad habit with ease. Some questions come with microlearning parts including additional context, examples and tips.
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.” — James Clear, Atomic Habits
