Habit Formation
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the a16z Podcast
5 statements about Habit Formation, every show
Clear: Visualizing progress sustains habits through delayed compounding returns
“Finding ways to visualize your progress as you go through your habits is important because a hallmark of almost any compounding process is that the greatest returns are delayed.”
Shankar: Framing Identity Around Non-Behaviors Drastically Alters Habit-Quitting Success
“Research has shown that can be as effective, and there's some research showing that when people are in the process of quitting, and let's say they're offered a cigarette, there is a difference in terms of expressed behavior. If you frame a Your current state a…”
Mullainathan: Daily habits are easier to maintain than four-day-a-week routines
“One thing I learned was every day is much easier than four days a week. You might think four days a week is easier because it's less often, but every day removes the most difficult thing about life is choosing and every day removes choice.”
Nir Eyal: High frequency of action is required to form user habits
“The condition is that it needs to be something, it needs to be a decision or an action that's made with little or no conscious thought. And it has to occur frequently. So frequency is a kind of precondition for the ability to even form the habit in the first p…”
Duke: Truth-seeking groups rewire incentives by immediately rewarding mistake admission
“What happens is that when you set up that kind of group agreement and you really live it, the group is actually reinforcing those kinds of behaviors. So, you know, you can think about habit formation, right? It's that you need to have this reward, and the rewa…”