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20 Powerful Lessons from the book 'The Power of Habit' 1 🔴 Habits are certain shortcuts that emerge in our brains - because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. Once the short cut is created, then the actions happen automatically. 2   🔴  Habits are triggered whenever a chunk of behaviour starts or ends. During the first phase, there is a trigger or a cue that tells the brain to move into habit mode and also specifies which habit to use. The second phase is routine - where everything happens automatically. Then there is the third phase of reward which tells the brain whether the habit is worth remembering for the future. Over time, the phases become more and more automated. 3  🔴  It is the craving that drives the habit loop - cue, routine and reward. 4   🔴  Once habits are formed, its tough to stop executing them. The mind craves for the habit and its associated reward. 5   🔴  To speed up our habit creation, we need a cue,...

Lesson from Book - "The Power Of Habit" 1. "Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped." 2. "The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it." 3. "Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned." 4. "Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things." 5. "Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine." 6. "If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real." 7. "This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be....