Judson Brewer : Asimole way to break a bad habit

                              

TED 2015

Judson Brewer : Asimole way to break a bad habit (transcript)

Summary

“Trigger,” “Behavior,” and “Reward”.
This is the reward-based learning process called positive and negative reinforcement and it's conserved back to the most basic nervous systems. Further, it can learn to repeat the process itself next time. Your bad habits are always created by the way of.

For example, 1) see food, eat food, feel good, and repeat. Next, feel sad or mad, eat food, and feel good. So emotional signal can be the trigger.

However, it's preventable. You can use it: the reward-based learning process again instead of fighting your brain or trying to force yourself. Not forcing, instead focused on being curious. You can use cognition to control your behavior, and you can create a better habit by the way of.

For example, 2) smoking tastes like shit, not smoke, feel good, and repeat. Next, thinking that smoking is bad, not smoke, and feel good.

However, when you get stressed or when you think that it's not going to be helpful, it doesn't work. It means to force yourself to hold back or to restrain yourself from behavior. You’re just less interested in doing something in the first place, but at this point, you have a curiosity deeply again. You can remember your endless and exhaustive habit loops and feel the joy of letting go.

For example, 3) notice the urge, get curious, feel the joy of letting go, and repeat.

Although there is no magical way but it takes a long time, you learn to see more and more clearly the results of your action. You let go of old habits and form new ones.

Words in this story

reinforcement / strengthening

conserve / protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction.