How to create good habits? 'Atomic habits'- James Clear

 How to create good habits- 

Hello this is Sidratul Montaha and today I will talk about good habits or you can say how you can create a good habit? It's not that easy to build up a good habit and follow them regularly. So, you need some really easy ways how you can build up your habit and follow them for a lifetime to achieve success. I want to say that this topic idea came to my mind when I was reading the 'Atomic Habits' book, written by James Clear. But, I want to explain the creation of habits in my way and according to my experience which you can follow to. 

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From here I will start dividing the whole topic How to create good habits into few key points. So hope you will enjoy the blog and gain knowledge from it.

1. Repeat the behaviors with satisfying consequences

This is the major point through which you can understand why you should make habits that bring pleasure to you. Yes! You should build up those habits which are bringing greater consequences and pleasure to you. Now, why you should follow that behavior that brings satisfaction? Because our brain targets those habits which bring satisfaction to us without any hesitation. 

For example, when you took a new apartment, it took time to make this habit where your switchboard is. But after spending months in that apartment, not even stepping on the room, your hands go directly where the switchboards are. How did this happen? Actually, this is not the exact thing. But how did this bring satisfaction? 

You are playing games for the first time on PS5. But you don't know how to play that and you are feeling anxious because you want to learn that ASAP. So one day, playing for hours you observed that you have got the way and realized how that game actually works. And suddenly you got the reward. The next time, you enjoy the game because now you know the key point. 

2. Try the "Feedback loop"

When you are given a math problem without solving or trying the examples, then you cannot solve that math because you don't know the rules behind this math solving. But once you got to catch the rules, you start to solve the problem, and then no one can stop you. When you got an unexpected result, you alter your strategy for next time. You don't need to see the example again, because now you know which way can bring satisfaction to you. This is how the 'Feedback loop' occurs. You start to try, then you fail because you don't know how to solve, then you learn, then you try differently. This is the feedback loop'. As James Clear in his 'Atomic Habits' said that, 

Habits are mental shortcuts learned from experience

When your brain learns a habit then later on your activity decreases because you later don't have to exactly look for the solution.

3. The habit loop

This is the science behind habit building which was mentioned by James Clear in his book 'Atomic Habits'. In this way, we can easily build up our habits. It contains 4 steps for habit build-up. The 4 steps are given below-

1. CUE

2. CRAVING

3. RESPONSE

4. REWARD

The cue can be described in many ways. The cue is the trigger that our brain initiates when we see anything attractive and then if we want to get it we step on the craving. If we want to make anything our habit, and we are in the cue step, then we have made it 'obvious'. Because, if the thing or action isn't obvious, then we cannot get into the furthermore steps. As a result, our habit-building will stay still.

The craving is the step where we get motivation for the thing for which our brain triggered. Because without motivation or desire, we cannot get into the step of craving. So we have to make the step craving 'Attractive'. So when we will see this space as attractive, we can easily get motivated and change our internal state. But one thing we have to remember that, we can only make a process our habit when we will be capable of doing that thing

The response is the pace where we give a response for getting our desired thing. And this step is not possible without cue and craving. So now we can see how these things are interdependent on each other. The response is about obtaining the reward and we want that. And when we receive this reward, we close the feedback loop and complete the habit cycle, and then when we see something new, the new habit cycle starts to run again. 

The reward is the last phase of the habit loop which will give you the result of completing the previous three steps and for gaining a habit successfully. 

So, we have successfully completed this topic and now we have got a complete idea of how we can create good habits and break the bad ones by using the inverse of the four laws as described above. Try to follow these easy steps and you can easily gain your habit.