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Do Not Compensate for a Missed Habit Day

If you miss a day, do not try to make up for it by doing extra the next day; avoid 'habit slip compensation.'

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If you miss a day, meaning you don't perform four to five things, there is no punishment. And in fact, it's important that you don't actually try and do what in the literature is called a habit slip compensation, which is just fancy psychological language for if you screw up and you don't get all four or five in one day, you don't do eight the next day in order to compensate.

Andrew Huberman · The Science of Making & Breaking Habits | Huberman Lab Essentials · Dec 4, 2025 · 29:45 · YouTube ↗
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