The man who didn’t look right
fundamental
the cues of people’s habits are invisible
many of the cues are unconscious
examples
paramedic could aware the uncommon face of her step father then saved his life
military analysts could distinguish their planes and their enemies’ planes on rader
cue is invisible is good and bad because it is hard for us even aware that we have this behavior and then change it
the work pattern of brain is continuously expecting everything around us
when the cue become invisible, it will develop itself by itself
The habits score card
there are no bad habits but uneffective habits
if we want to change our ‘bad’ habits, we need to outlook of our habits
two ways
1.write a daily habits then use + - = to score those habits
it could help us to recognize if our habits are good or not
2.we could use pointing and calling in real lives
e.g. Japan rail road
The best way to start new habits
fundamental
implementation intention
- I will [ behavior ] in [ location] at [ time ]
example
an experiment about an habits about exercise in British
three group of people
the first group is control group
the second one
Habits stacking
comes from a stanford professor
it is a kind of implementation intention
use the reward of an old habits to be the cue of the new habits we want to possess
it looks like diderot effect
bought one thing, then this thing lead you to buy more things
eg. long long ago the queen of russian give a philosopher 1000(15000$today) to help him to offer the wedding of his daughter. the philosopher not only use this money offer his daughter’s wedding, he also bought himself a beautiful red robe. then he started to upgrade everything in his house.
we could write down all habits in two column. one is for things we could control, the other one is about the things we can not control.
Motivation is ovrated, environment matters more
fundamental
environment matters more
e.g. added more water in the hospital, there were more people buy water instead of soda.
b=f(p,e)
vision is the most important in 5 senses
there are 11milloin nerves, vision possess 10million nerves.
how to build good environment
good environment means more obvious cues that we want
e.g.
if we want to drink water, then fill many bottles
people who could know the level of their electricity use less electricity than their neighbor even they have the dame house
men in bathroom aim
The context is the cue
the whole context could be a cue
we could hardly work in a place that we usualy play video games
e.g.
when you are in a bar, you will drink more
the speed of falling in sleep depends on the texture of bed
the good news is that we could change the context
‘a work a space’’a space a use’
a new environment could be easier for us to make good habits
- because the new good cues will not compete with the old bad cues
if we could not have new environment, we could use different room in our house, our different furniture in our room
e.g.
a table for read
a table for eat
a chair for entertaiment
The secret of self-control
the secret is making bad cue invisible
e.g.
- soliders did not use heroin after they go back to their home from the place where was fighting
make the things that needs big self-control invisible
bad cues make us could not self-control
cue-induced wanting
- people who are obese feel sad, then they eat more, then they feel more sad, then they eat more
we could hide the cue of bad habits to develop our self-control
a habit that was already became a habits will not be forgotten
e.g.
- a person who likes to smoke after riding horses want to smoke after riding a horse when he has already stopped smoking.
if environment mix, the behavior will mix, and the easier one will win in most of times