18 May 2023
THE HABIT LOOP
This is made up of:
- Cue / trigger: A location, a time of day, certain people, an emotional state.
- Routine: Watching TV, smoking a cigarette, eating chocolate, biting your nails.
- Reward: The pleasure chemicals released in the brain because of the routine.
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This means that:
- The loop is a self-reinforcing mechanism that over time becomes automatic.
- Because of the reward the habit loop is reinforced.
- When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making.
Understanding how habits work through the habit loop makes it easier to take control over them.
Breaking a habit down into its components makes it possible to change the “logic of the loop” so to speak.
Habits are encoded in the structures of our brain and save us a lot of effort because we don’t have to relearn everything we do.
How the Golden Rule works:
- Use the same cue.
- CHANGE THE ROUTINE!
- Provide the same reward.
The good news is that habits aren’t destiny. All habits can be ignored, changed, or replaced. But it’s not easy because a habit never truly disappears - it is merely replaced by new habits.
Habits never really disappear. You can’t extinguish a bad habit; you can only change it.
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