How Are Habits Formed? The Power of Habit - Part:1
- 3 Şub 2018
- 2 dakikada okunur
Conditioned Reflex
With the evolution of technology, application of brain scans have become easier than ever and the most scans have something in common which is one of the most important discoveries of all times. It is conditioned reflex. It is Ivan Pavlov's dog and its automatic reactions to a certain trigger.
In the book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg introduced a loop model which simplified how conditioned reflexes or, as society calls it, daily habits work automatically. According to his book, habits are formed with three major steps that are called Cue, Routine and Reward. Since habits form the daily routines, addictions, healthy activities(Meditation, Working Out, etc.), social behaviours or, to sum up, majority of the activities that are applied during the day; it can be stated that they are the prominent factors that determine a life's quality.
Cue
Cue is defined as a signal for a specific routine. It can be anything that creates a certain emotion that leads to certain action such as a person, an object, a time interval or anything that can be perceived with five senses(Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch). Cue is the emotion that was triggered by anything that can comprehended by the five senses.
Routine
Since the emotions manages the path humanity takes, the routine will be the path that is defined automatically. This step is the actual habit itself. This is the action homo sapiens(today's human in stone age) take in order to survive. Because if people stop and think for a moment, it could be a late moment to keep themselves alive in tough conditions.
Reward
Well, at the end of the beginning process, a reason for all effort must be ensured which is a feeling of satisfaction, some level of pleasure or relaxation by avoiding pain. This part reveals if the action(Routine) that was taken was the right set of automatic reaction or not.
Now let me provide some examples;
A Social Environment-> Smoking -> (Fitting in)Feeling Accepted
Someone Being Rude -> Your Mean Comment -> Feeling of Relief
Sitting in a Private Room -> Masturbation -> Pleasure
Cue -> Routine -> Reward
Part 1 is the explanation of the habit formation, part 2 will be about learning to use it the way we wanna construct our habits. Hope that was helpful.
Check out the book -> Amazon, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
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