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Habits, Are They Really All They’re Cracked Up to Be?
What’s So Good About Building Habits Anyway?
In 1903, The American Journal of Psychology defined a habit as the following:
“as more or less a fixed way of thinking, willing or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience”
In other words, from doing something over and over it becomes routine. Whether that be mental or physical. In other, other words, thinking, feeling or willing concretes in your life by repetition.
For that very reason, habits are so interesting. Once they are embedded they become almost automatic and they end up forming a huge part of your life. It presents a huge opportunity to logically hack your cognitive system to become whoever you want to to be.
They set out the path of your life. Think about your morning routine or your night-time routine. The activities you do, I’m assuming, don’t wildly change. You get coffee at the same or similar time, you read the news or think for a period of time, you probably shower around the same time every day.
Whatever it may be, you have a handful of habits that make up a subsection of your day. They are the foregone conclusions of your life…
