How habits form: why you do things you never decided to do
How to break a bad habit without fighting it every evening
A bad habit with years of practice beats a new one on any tired evening. Fighting it every night is a battle you lose, and there is a way with no fight.
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Your sofa now starts two routines: the young guitar habit and the old phone habit. On a tired evening, the old one, with years of practice behind it, gets there first.
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So you fight it. Every evening you tell yourself "not now" and leave the phone alone. It works on good evenings and fails on tired ones, because the cue is still right there, every evening, asking again.
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