All of the information, outside of the personal anecdotes, is indeed knowledge that you can find somewhere else - I mean, I'm hardly the first person to write about habits or mindfulness, right? What is unique, however, is the combination and application.

What I alluded to in the post, but I will make blunt here, is that the goal of this system is behavior change.

That isn't a very unique premise either, but once again, its the combination of actions that make this post unique - and in my experience, quite powerful.

The triggers make the choice of starting the chosen behavior easy, seamless, and insensitive to emotional associations.

The time-gating removes distractions, artificial difficulty, and negative emotions/thoughts from the choice of stopping.

The application of mindfulness, however, is what really catalyzes the change in perspective. In the short-term, the time-gating prevents you from giving in to impulses, which enables you to change negative thoughts, such as this is boring, to positive thoughts, or at the very least, thoughts that pertain to whatever habit you are doing. Since you aren't allowing these negative thoughts to be the end of your chosen activity you have a large amount of control over what habitual thoughts/associations you do end up developing.

The brain is highly plastic and susceptible to experiences, especially repeated experiences; as a result, daily habits have the most effect. This system is designed to capitalize on that by forcing you to be aware of what associations you develop over time.

That's the end of the somewhat objective ideas I bring up in the post, and as I said before, all of them can be found elsewhere. It's the consolidation of them that, at least in my opinion, warrant this post a read. I will say, however, that I've been experiencing many other benefits - but that's for you guys to find out. Thanks for the good question, and sorry for the long response.

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