Exploring Habits And How They Work
According to Dictionary.com, a habit is an “acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.”
This means that a habit is a behavior that is repeatedly done until you almost don’t know that you are even doing it.
It becomes like second nature to you. Back in 2010 a University College London study showed that it took an average of 66 days (i.e. over 2 months) to make a new habit virtually automatically.
Therefore, this in-depth study tells us two very important things:
• Habits don’t become automatic overnight
• Habits cannot be broken overnight.
A habit is something that only comes via time and repeated action.
We often don’t even recognize ourselves as doing a bad habit until usually someone else points it out.
The brain likes to develop these habits because it can conserve its mental energy toward another task while it engages in the habit.
