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Who is the author of Power of Habit? (Looks like there are a few different books you could be referring to.)

• hospitalJail 3y ago
  Charles Duhigg Couldn't recommend it enough. I can make my life robotic if I want, and still be happy. Its mind boggling. (Admittedly, you have to turn it into a habit, which means like ~3 days of 'suck', but after that its automatic)
  • andai 3y ago
    You can form a habit in 3 days? I thought the consensus was 20-30. I've done things every day for 50+ days without the habit sticking. I think I heard "habit resistance" is related to ADHD.
    • hospitalJail 3y ago
      The pain goes away after 3 days. It becomes automatic. But I also should clarify that this is specifically the basal ganglia that is being affected, and the basal ganglia works in a rigid way. A 'habit' isnt sticking after 50 days, you might be replacing it occasionally with something else, which is essentially breaking the habit. From the book, I can imagine a bunch of ways why this is going wrong. Maybe you are doing something that scratches the itch that would otherwise drive the habit. Maybe you are not doing the cue-routine-reward cycle when you do your new habit. I feel like I'm doing a real disservice to the book because I'm summarizing ~300 pages, I'm about to hop off HN and don't want to go into further detail, and I don't even know what habit you were working on. Don't let my terrible comment dissuade you. I also don't recommend summaries of this book, they missed too much.