One aspect of habits you didn’t mention is automaticity. I automatically brush my teeth as part of taking a shower. Often I notice myself doing this, but even if not it’s still part of the “taking a shower” mental program.
I agree that this isn’t reliable and sometimes one has to muscle through to retain a habit, but I think the balance between automaticity and aversion to losing the habit varies a lot from person to person, and it would be worth having a better understanding of what enhances or inhibits automaticity.
exactly, sometimes it is easier to swallow multiple habits in “package deals” that is making habits to automatically happen in conjunction or immediately one after the other, once you have one already in place
One aspect of habits you didn’t mention is automaticity. I automatically brush my teeth as part of taking a shower. Often I notice myself doing this, but even if not it’s still part of the “taking a shower” mental program.
I agree that this isn’t reliable and sometimes one has to muscle through to retain a habit, but I think the balance between automaticity and aversion to losing the habit varies a lot from person to person, and it would be worth having a better understanding of what enhances or inhibits automaticity.
exactly, sometimes it is easier to swallow multiple habits in “package deals” that is making habits to automatically happen in conjunction or immediately one after the other, once you have one already in place