Guru Please

Habits

Episode Summary

It’s hard to build good and healthy habits even though we all know what those habits are. Here is my take on why it’s not just willpower that creates a habit, and why it’s not “bad” to have a bad habit.

Episode Notes

It’s hard to build good and healthy habits even though we all know what those habits are. Here is my take on why it’s not just willpower that creates a habit, and why it’s not “bad” to have a bad habit.

Quotes to remember: 

“A lot of our habits that were once adaptive are now maladaptive.”

“We don’t need to feel bad about having ‘bad’ or ‘unhealthy’ habits.”

Takeaways:

• Perfectionism is a habit that we had a reason for cultivating
• Our habits are contextual and are learned in certain situations
• Habits are tools to do something in life, not the end
• When we become aware of why we have certain habits and what we want to do, it becomes simpler to develop better habits

What you’ll learn:

• Why we may beat ourselves up over a mistake 
• An analogy of habit formation to playing games with different rules

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