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Replacement Behavior After a Bad Habit

Immediately after catching yourself doing a bad habit, perform a different adaptive behavior right away to weaken the old habit loop through temporal mismatch. Make the replacement something positive and fairly easy to execute.

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“The period immediately after the bad habit execution is a unique opportunity to insert a different type of what we would call adaptive behavior, but that could be any behavior that's not in line with the bad behavior. You literally exit whatever you are doing and perform that other new positive habit in the immediate period right after that, even for a short period of time.”

huberman · The Science of Making & Breaking Habits · Jan 3, 2022 · 1:38:35 · open ↗

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