If You Tell People That They Have

When A Habit Emerges, The Brain Stops Fully Participating In Decision Making. It Stops Working So Hard, Or Diverts Focus To Other Tasks. So Unless You Deliberately Fight A Habit -- Unless You Find New Routines -- The Pattern Will Unfold Automatically.

If You Want To Do Something That Requires Willpower - Like Going For A Run After Work - You Have To Conserve Your Willpower Muscle During The Day.

There's A Natural Instinct Embedded In Friendship, A Sympathy That Makes Us Willing To Fight For Someone We Like When They Are Treated Unjustly.

Once People Learned How To Believe In Something, That Skill Started Spilling Over To Other Parts Of Their Lives, Until They Started Believing They Could Change. Belief Was The Ingredient That Made A Reworked Habit Loop Into A Permanent Behavior.

Rather, To Change A Habit, You Must Keep The Old Cue, And Deliver The Old Reward, But Insert A New Routine.