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Elastic Habits

Stephen Guise

6/10
A nice set of ideas regarding how to make habits sustainable and incorporating them into daily life, which is inherently chaotic
  • Life is dynamic and ever changing -> your habits hosuld adapt rather than being ridgid for this idea
  • Easy to be unhappy when trading freedom for results likew ith dieting
  • Flexibility allows, improvisation, more opprotunity for awareness, allocate resources better for you and freedom
  • Goal sizes have different pro's/con's ease, active reset, motivation, fulfillment, progression etc. Switching between is more ideal than sticking to one
  • Motivation, attainability (is easy/possible at all), respecability (pride), value (lesss harm or more reward)
  • Habits should have 9 point grid, 3 habits (for variety/lateral) each with 3 levels of difficults (vertical)
  • Goals should be adjusted up and down differently overtime as you get better
  • Strategy over tactics, why you do over what you do (especially when mimicing others)
  • Systems should consider choice paralysis and decision fatigue and excitement of variability
  • By tracking you self correct. If you miss any days -> mini is to hard
  • Modular habits where mini is done always and then plus is actually the mini activity plus another activity or iteration and elitie is mini, plus and another element
  • Habit Pools: Pool of equally difficult habits, any 1 is mini, any 2 is plus any 3 is elite
  • Over coming resistance -> first have you chosen one objective to pursue, second is the action simplified to a mechanical starting point that you can do, third -> you have to start and continue
  • Be careful when increasing mini habits, they should always be incredibily easy
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