![]() (One of the wisest people on the planet.) ![]() He probably has all the intention to stop - it’s just freaking hard to do. It’s so easy to judge others based on actions and ourselves based on intentions.īut that guy, standing at the corner, puffing on his cigarette, isn’t trying to. Sometimes I look at people who smoke and think: “What the fudge? Does he have no clue how short life is? How can I take him even seriously, if he’s smoking?” Habits are even tougher to break than you thought - way tougher The exact same thing happens when you reach for the cookie jar for the millionth time - your brain just doesn’t consider it a task anymore - and you go on autopilot. Once they knew: “As soon as the door clicks I can just run straight, turn left and get some chocolate”, their brain put their bodies on an automated sequence, minimizing the energy required to take action or process information along the way. After a clicking noise which opened the door into the maze, the rats had to find their way through 2 sections for a piece of chocolate.Ĭheck out their brain activity on their first try and after one week of repeating the same parcours: Researchers recreated this behavior with rats running through mazes. Each chunk is then automated, requiring less and less brain activity the more often it is repeated. Your brain divides a complex pattern into small chunks The Basal Ganglia and Chunking of Action Repertoires. That’s why it’s constantly looking for new ways to save energy.Īutomating behaviors in the form of habits is one of the best ways to do so. Your brain makes up only 2% of your total mass, but it consumes 25% of all the oxygen you inhale.īoy, this thing better be efficient. Your brain is the most efficient processor on the planet.įorget Moore’s law and doubling the cores of your CPU, if we understand the brain in it’s entirety, we win. Habits are a way for your brain to save energy It’s about time.īut why does our brain automate so freaking much of what we do? 2. If you just went “Holy Shit!” then all I can say is: Good. Let me say that again: You spend 1 out of every 2 minutes doing something that you’re not even aware of. This study Habits-A Repeat Performance from Duke University in 2006 found that up to 45% of all our daily behaviors are automatic. WORKOUTS is sexy now ( Kylan Fischer via Instagram)īecause more and more the findings from research start seeping into our brains: habits matter.Nowadays everyone and their brother is doing yoga and over 2 million people use HeadSpace, an app for guided meditations. Long gone are the times when experimenting with habits such as meditation or yoga was only for Zen monks and gurus. Half of the time you are awake is spent with automatic behaviors That way, the next time you find yourself munching on a Twinkie, you’ll know what’s happening - and changing your behavior will be easier. Note: If you can’t get enough of these, I’ve also written a 4-minute summary of the book. That’s why I’ve picked out 5 facts about habits hardly anyone is aware of to share with you today. Once you know how habits work, changing them becomes much easier. When you have no clue that your car needs oil to run, how can you know it’s oil you need to put in when it suddenly stops dead in the middle of the road? How can you change something, if you don’t know how it works? That’s what happens when you don’t know what exactly you’re dealing with. You’ll not only learn 5 little-known facts about habits to fix your own broken ones, but today you also have a chance to win THE book about habits.īut why are we here having this discussion in the first place?īecause you slipped up (totally guessing here :)). Welcome to the 92% of people who fail their new year’s resolutions. ![]() How are those new year’s resolutions going for you so far?
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