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The brain's way of outsourcing thinking so it can binge-watch anxiety instead.
means A habit is an action repeated so often it runs on autopilot, with little or no conscious decision involved.
from From Latin habitus, 'condition, appearance, way of holding oneself' — from habere, 'to have or hold.' It first meant how you were dressed or carried yourself (a monk's 'habit' preserves this old sense), then drifted to mean the way you habitually 'hold' yourself in action — a settled posture of behavior rather than cloth.
- loop structure
- cue, routine, reward — the basal ganglia's favorite recipe
- no magic number
- 21 days is a myth; averages closer to 66
- never deleted
- old habits aren't erased, just outcompeted by new ones
- monks and nuns
- a habit is also literally what they wear