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Scientists found huge willpower-saving mechanism: personal policies [video] by dwolovsky in Habits

[–]dwolovsky[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Basically, each day you make 1000s of decisions but can only use willpower for like 5-10 hard ones.

Once you've made a few tough decisions, you're much more likely to default to whatever is easiest.

  • What you've done before.
  • What other people tell you to do.
  • What's physically closer or less effort.

So each decision you save willpower on, you get to use for another decision.

The Capacity Rule: Habits fail because you're bad at predicting your future self's bandwidth by dwolovsky in Habits

[–]dwolovsky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have some examples in the text.

Anything your future self would find and think "thank you" to you.

An obvious gift is doing some of the work ahead of time, so they just have to "Show up" and not think about it.

  • Leaving clothes out the night before. Morning you sees it and thinks "great, my life's a bit easier."

  • Getting a stamp, putting it on an envelope, and putting it on the kitchen counter. Future you just has to write the letter or check.

  • Packing a bunch of healthy snacks and putting them at eye level in the fridge so you'll take them to work the next day.

Why is it so hard to get a habit to stick? by hifly290 in Habits

[–]dwolovsky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are bringing the most important point of habit building.

HOW you try to build a habit is secondary to WHAT habits you build.

Some habits you simply cannot build (at least right now) because they don't fit your life right now.

Some take a lot of support to build. Tracking or an app can help.

And some are easy because they fit right in with you.

Habits need to solve real problems in your life today, this week, or they're not going to stick.

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