{"id":3031,"date":"2018-10-02T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:49:12","slug":"the-power-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/the-power-of-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading deep work (<a href=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/29\/deep-work\/\">blog link<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/charlesduhigg.com\/the-power-of-habit\/\">the power of habit<\/a> for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The book narrates the importance of our habit in our life and self-development.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the cycle of cue, routine and reward results in habit formation. We get engulfed to our habit and end up practicing it without any cognitive overload.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a regular rider, you don&#8217;t need a checklist before your side. Your brain knows it.<\/p>\n<p>The habit formation process:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3032\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/habit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/habit.png 500w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/habit-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/habit-260x189.png 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoicdoodler.com\/habit\/\">http:\/\/www.stoicdoodler.com\/habit\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cue (notification) + Routine (notification making you visit the app) + Reward (likes, comments, compliments) = Habit (App addiction)<\/p>\n<p>The book accounts habit related studies on :<br \/>\n* Americas civil rights movement<br \/>\n* Addiction to gambling<br \/>\n* Quotes of philosophers: Aristotle and Hume.<\/p>\n<p>The more and more I read this kind of books, I realize they have a recipe for success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3033\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bestsellers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bestsellers.png 500w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bestsellers-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bestsellers-226x260.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">http:\/\/www.stoicdoodler.com\/best-seller\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I will be reading &#8220;appendix&#8221; now on instead finishing the entire book. Is it mandatory to write 300 pages book? Should we blame publishers for this habit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading deep work (blog link) and the power of habit for some time. The book narrates the importance of our habit in our life and self-development. In short, the cycle of cue, routine and reward results in habit formation. We get engulfed to our habit and end up practicing it without any cognitive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/the-power-of-habit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The power of habit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100],"tags":[437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}