How to Build New Habits and KEEP Them! BJ Fogg & James Clear
Dave Asprey
Mar 5, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Celebrate to reinforce habit formation
You can hack your emotion to create a habit through a technique called celebration, which is anything you do that helps you feel immediately successful, like a fist pump.
Harness emotions to wire lasting habits
The thing that wires a habit in is not repetition, but the emotion you feel when you do the behavior.
Recognize aging as a pathway to overcoming addiction
As dopamine often declines with age, many addicts will age out of their addiction because they no longer experience the same intense wave of desire.
Utilize Stemregen to boost stem cell release for health benefits
The supplement Stemregen is a science-backed blend of plant extracts documented to help your body release millions of your own stem cells into circulation.
Trace behavioral chain to uncover root cause of problems
To solve a problem habit, walk back the behavioral chain to find the root cause, which is almost always upstream of the action you think is the problem.
Simplify habits by skill training, environmental tools, or scaling actions
To make a behavior easier, you have three options: train yourself to skill up, get tools to modify your environment, or scale back the action itself.
Establish new habits in fresh environments
It is easier to build a new habit in a new context or environment where you don't have a previous behavioral bias pulling you towards an old habit.
Cultivate 'Shine' to reinforce successful habits
The specific emotion of feeling successful, which helps wire in habits, is named 'Shine'.
Change habits by focusing on feeling good, not bad
If your past efforts to change didn't work, it's not your fault; you were likely using an old-fashioned approach, and the best way to change is by feeling good, not bad.
Avoid tracking to preserve joy in activities you love
Quantifying an activity you love, like tracking how far you surf, can take the fun and spiritual experience out of it.
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