“C is the celebration, anything you do to create a positive emotion inside yourself to help self-reinforce.” You are looking for something firm and rooted in your life that you can attach this new habit to.”įor flossing you would attach it to brushing so brushing is the anchor that reminds you to floss, he says. “Then you say were does this fit naturally in my life? What does it come after and I call that an anchor – letter A. “And you take that behaviour and scale it back so it’s super tiny. In the middle is B - the behaviour or the thing you want to become a habit. He has an ABC approach to the tiny habit method. “There is a role for will power and discipline in our lives, it helps us do hard behaviours, but when it comes to habits, that’s not the best approach.” The way to stop a bad habit is not, he says, through willpower. “Whether they are good habits or bad habits they are plants, this is a useful plant and this is a weed.”
Good habits and bad habits can be compared to plants and weeds, he says. And then it gets nurtured through emotion.” "The way habits form is not through repetition, there’s a lot of misinformation about that, 66 days or 21 days, essentially most habits will start small, they’ll find a place in our lives where it sits well … a daily habit say using a new app …. There is a lot of misinformation surrounding how we form habits, he tells Jesse Mulligan. Listen to the full interview with Dr BJ Fogg
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