{"id":376,"date":"2018-06-12T07:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T05:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2018-06-12T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T05:19:55","slug":"mental-model-monday-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/mental-model-monday-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Model Monday: Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Habits are not really a mental model, and I&#8217;ve never been great at building good habits.\u00a0 Spontaneity is important to me.\u00a0 But many successful\u00a0people swear by their habits.\u00a0 As I get older I&#8217;ve started seeing the value in them.\u00a0 The consistency and the simplicity of habits are two things that are greatly appealing.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s like building up muscle memory for rewarding activities.\u00a0 My wife is great at building habits.\u00a0 She cycles almost every morning, and she loves it.\u00a0 Now, while I think that good habits are important, at this stage in my life I&#8217;m more interested in breaking bad habits.\u00a0 This is because I believe I have several, and because these habits are negatively impacting the trajectory of my life\u00a0and the longevity of my life.\u00a0 In Ray Dalio&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Principles-Life-Work-Ray-Dalio\/dp\/1501124021\">Principles<\/a>, he asks the question (paraphrasing) &#8220;What are three bad habits you can break now.\u00a0 If you break even one, it will have an immediate positive impact on your life.&#8221;\u00a0 Tim Ferriss also gives advice on how to break habits.\u00a0 Habits are broken with both a how &#8211; what you stop doing &#8211; and the why &#8211; your incentive to stop.\u00a0 The history of human economics and human behaviour is largely a story about incentives, and if you don&#8217;t have a significant incentive to stop a habit, it&#8217;s a difficult battle.<\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;m focusing on breaking three bad habits, and I&#8217;ll do so by setting up a large negative incentive if I fail.\u00a0 Happy Habitting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habits are not really a mental model, and I&#8217;ve never been great at building good habits.\u00a0 Spontaneity is important to me.\u00a0 But many successful\u00a0people swear by their habits.\u00a0 As I get older I&#8217;ve started seeing the value in them.\u00a0 The consistency and the simplicity of habits are two things that are greatly appealing.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}