The Power of Habit

High-Level Thoughts

Your habits are what you choose them to be. The brain can be reprogrammed, you just need to be deliberate. And that takes willpower.

Summary Notes

40% of actions performed daily are habits, not decisions

Habits free up our limited conscious resources.

The real power of habit: your habits are what you choose them to be.

Habits never disappear

Habits work in 3-step loops: cue, routine, reward.

Craving powers the habit loop. Makes new habits easier.

The trick to changing a habit is to switch the routine, and leave everything else in tact. Golden Rule. Ex: decaf

There is no specific set of steps guaranteed to work for every person in breaking their bad habits and building a new habit.

Your brain can be reprogrammed- you just need to be deliberate.

Your most important habit is willpower.

Keystone habits have far reaching effects. Fosters change in many areas.

Small wins fuel transformative change

Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits.

Consumers need a signal the product is working.

Habit-Water analogy