Habits Flashcards
What are the three parts of a habit?
The Que, the habit, and the reward.
What is the first thing that must be understood before a habit can be broken?
What the Que is that invokes the habit.
How do you break a habit?
When the que is initiated, replace the action of the habit with a new desires action, and produce the same reward.
Can Habits be eradicated?
Habits can only be replaced.
What is the best opportunity to create change?
Monopolize on a crisis, people are resistant to change unless there is a compelling reason to do so.
If there is no need for change and people are resistant, how do you get then onboard?
Create a crisis!
What is it that people resist?
Anything new!
How do you get someone to accept something new?
Surround it by something familiar! For example, playing a new song between two new songs until the new song becomes familiar!
Name a habit that automatically produces other positive habits?
Keystone Habit
What is a primary keystone habit that when cultivated can be automatic?
Will power
What is the benefit of implementing will power in your life?
By performing will power in one portion of your life you will automatically demonstrate it in other portions of your life.
Is willpower infinite or does it have it’s limitations?
It has its limitations, when we are tired or have been implementing it all day it will b used up!
At which points is will power broken down?
At inflection points, such as a time where you are really tired. For example, if you run before you lift weights, you may not want to log after being tired after the run.
How do you mitigate problematic inflection points?
Plan for them. Write out a plan and practice how you will respond when the inflection point arises!
What habits make up the basis of Societal change?
Social Habits.
What make up social habits?
Social patterns our behaviors that happen across hundreds and thousands of people without them thinking about it. Example the civil rights movement.
What three things are needed to bring about social change?
The social ties between friendship and the strong ties between acquaintances.
It grows because of the habits of community
It endure, because leaders give people new habits with a fresh since of identity and a feeling of ownership.
How did social patterns affect the civil rights movement?
Friendships with people affected unjustly by prejudice of many just felt that this was wrong.
This unspoken injustice set into motion social patterns to stop this injustice.
Leaders in the civil rights movement gave new habits with a new identity and ownership of an America where all mankind are equal.
They arrest of Rosa parks just was the catalyst to bring about change because it set in motion a social patterns that were already there.
What habit ignited the social protest when Rosa Parks was arrested
The habit of friendship. Rosa Parks was deeply respected by the community. This coupled with the political social change started a revolution.
What is the power of week ties?
Weak ties are friends of friends.
People wont help strangers
People Will help friends
People will help friends of friends or week ties.
The reason is it extends our social networks and by being a team player we will get help when we need it.
What is the advantage of weak ties?
It gives us access to social networks?
What form of persuasion do you get weak ties to do something they don’t want to?
Peer pressure, if you can get the group around them to make them feel obligated, you can get them to do anything.
People will willingly suffer for a friend, however the only way to get someone with ties to suffer for your friend is to use peer pressure and make them feel obligated to do so.
What is required to Modify a habit?
You must decide to change it.
You must put in the hard work of identifying the que and the rewards that drive the habits routines.
