Reviewed Date: November 30th, 2021
We all know the importance of habits. What if I say that we are more likely to succeed when we have good habits? It is also true that our productivity depends on the habits we have.
The book Atomic Habits talked about how to change and form habits effortlessly. I wouldn’t like to focus this review on that but on how our brain forms habits.
Our brain constantly looks for ways to save effort. It automates our decisions. According to a study, 40 percent of actions we form in a day aren’t actual decisions but habits.
Think of a habit as a loop—cue, routine, and reward. A cue is a trigger that tells you to act. And, you act physically, emotionally, or mentally. This is routine. Finally, reward is what you get after acting.
If a loop is worth remembering, it gets stored in the basal ganglia. In simple terms, what the basal ganglia does is recall the patterns and make us act on them. Habits help us save energy and time. Our brain diverts focus to other tasks once a habit is formed.
“Habits: The choices that all of us deliberately make at some point, then stop thinking about but continue doing, often every day”
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