Gewohnheit
6 cards from across every topic, each citing a source. Tap one to open it in the feed.
- 21 days to form a habit? The study says otherwise.
In 2010 Phillippa Lally tracked 96 people who repeated a new routine daily, such as drinking a glass of water with …
- How a Monday helps you start, and so does a birthday.
In 2014 Dai, Milkman and Riis found people prefer to start goals at temporal landmarks: searches for "diet" rose 82 …
- How a habit forms from three parts.
A habit is made of a cue, a routine and a reward. The cue is a place, a time, a feeling or a previous action. The …
- How an if-then sentence makes your goals stick.
Peter Gollwitzer calls it an implementation intention: instead of "I want to exercise more" you say "When I get home on …
- Odysseus had himself tied up because he didn't trust himself.
To hear the Sirens' song without drowning, Odysseus had himself bound to the mast and ordered his crew not to release …
- Why pigeons, slot machines and your feed use the same trick.
B. F. Skinner found that if you reward a pigeon not for every peck but unpredictably, it pecks far more often and …