The Good Life Blueprint Series by Patrik Edblad

Author:Patrik Edblad
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: self help
Publisher: Patrik Edblad
Published: 2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

In many ways, we shape our environment, and then our environment shapes us.

So, with that in mind, what does your default design look like?

Is it supporting your fundamentals? Is it helping you strengthen your circle of competence? Is it aligned with your why and the person you want to be?

The Activation Energy of Habits

At any given moment, the default effect is either working for you or against you. So, what you need to do is shape your environment to support the behaviors you want and discourage the behaviors you don’t want.

A useful way of thinking about this is in terms of what psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to as the activation energy of habits.

The basic idea is this: the harder a behavior is to do, the more activation energy it needs, and the less likely you’ll be to do it.

In his book Finding Flow, Csikszentmihalyi explains that “if a person is too tired, anxious, or lacks the discipline to overcome that initial obstacle, he or she will have to settle for something that, although less enjoyable, is more accessible.” So, to change your habits, what you need to do is:

decrease the activation energy of your desired behaviors (in other words, make them as easy as possible to do); and

increase the activation energy of your undesired behaviors (in other words, make them as hard as possible to do).

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