Situations / Habits and self-control
Habits and self-control
Changing your own behavior and sticking to it.
Traps you might be in
- No. 0310 Ego DepletionAfter a day of biting your tongue, you open the snack cupboard and feel too worn out to resist.
- No. 0732 Peak-End RuleYou call the whole weekend wonderful because of one spectacular dinner and the easy ride home.
- No. 0763 Present BiasYour workout starts in ten minutes, but you sit down for one more episode.
- No. 0979 Status Quo BiasYou renew the same phone plan again, with a cheaper offer still open in the next tab.
- No. 1003 Sunk Cost FallacyYou keep pouring time into something because of everything you’ve already put in.
Tools to try
- No. 0069 BackcastingYou put a debt-free date on the calendar, then calculate what your balance must be three months before it.
- No. 0167 Commitment DeviceYou ask a friend to hold your game console until Friday, before the urge to play kicks in.
- No. 0249 Deliberate PracticeYou stop replaying the whole song and spend ten minutes on the four bars where your fingers keep stumbling.
- No. 0312 Eisenhower MatrixYou spend the morning answering messages, then realize the hiring plan due next month still hasn’t moved.
- No. 0388 Five WhysYou refill the label printer again, then notice nobody knows who is supposed to order the rolls.
- No. 0495 Implementation IntentionsWhen you shut your laptop, you trade opening the fridge for putting on your walking shoes.
- No. 0961 Spacing EffectYou finish a two-hour study session feeling fluent, then blank on the same questions a week later.
- No. 1024 Temptation BundlingYou lace up your sneakers because the next chapter of your thriller is waiting at the gym.
- No. 1079 Via NegativaYour week is packed, and canceling one standing meeting helps most, delivering more than a better calendar app could.