habits

“And I think that this is like a deep truth about habits that people often overlook, which is a habit must be established before it can be improved. It has to become the standard in your life before you can scale it up and optimize it into something more.”

“One way to define a habit is that it's the solution to recurring problems in your environment.”

“From a real high level, if you want a good habit to stick, You roughly want four things to happen. The first thing is you want the good habit to be obvious, because the more obvious or available or visible a habit is, the more likely you are to take action on …”

“You can become an expert by writing about something every week, because once you get two or three years in, It's like, yeah, actually, it turns out there are very few people who've written a hundred articles on habits, and so you learn a lot along the way”

“Your brain is automating whatever it can to save energy and to conserve effort wherever possible, and so you're going to be building habits whether you want to or not”

“By constructing habits through cue-based routines that are repeated in sort of consistent environments and consistent ways at fairly consistent times, And then where we reward ourselves in some way each time we enact the behavior, doing that with sort of a bur…”