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Derek Kędziora, Defaults instead of Habits Earlier today I’ve read this blogpost by Derek Kędziora.

He talks about how habits in the “self help scene” In this post Derek thinks through how the stereotypical conception in the self-help scene is unproductive towards having success with them. He mentions that if you go with the “traditional” view on habits then that makes you end up to fear failing the streak a single time leading you to never do it again. Because you have broken it.

He instead proposes looking at habits and perceiving them as defaults instead. That way you can break them occasionally as it’s realistic, but you don’t fear to have broken a streak and instead you go naturally back to how the default.

He mentions a few examples himself but I have another few out of my own life that apply here.