Some habits matter more than others in remaking our lives (or businesses). The water is habits: The unthinking choices and invisible decisions that surround us - and which, just by looking at them, become visible again. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?” - David Foster Wallace There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between good and bad habits, so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards. They’re encoded into the structures of our brain. So, unless you deliberately fight a habit - unless you find new routines - the pattern will unfold automatically. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making.
This can be physical, mental, or emotional.
Cues can be almost anything, from a visual trigger to a time of day, an emotion, a sequence of thoughts, the company of particular people, etc.This is a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode, and which habit to use. Habit loopsĪll habits follow the same, simple, three-step loop: I. When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get REWARD.īy understanding how it happens, you can rebuild those patterns in whichever way you choose. Put another way, a habit is a formula our brain automatically follows. A habit is just a choice that we deliberately made at some point (how to eat, how often to drink, when to go for a jog, etc), and then stop thinking about, but continue doing - often every day.
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