Why Do We Perform Bad Habits? And How Can We Break Them?
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2019
- You most likely already know what's good for you and what's not.
You know that eating fried, fast food, is not good for you.
You understand that laying on the couch, watching TV and browsing social media is also bad.
And you're fully aware that smoking is horrible for your health.
Now the question is: why do you do the things that you know are not good for you?
If you logically understand which habits are bad, why don't you avoid them?
In this video I'll explain why you keep on performing those bad habits and I'll give you a solution for the problem.
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#Habits
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Bad habits is a consequence of the emotional void that we try tap into.
A purpose, a meaning in life, can help to find a direction in life.
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Gonzalo Gonzalo Quoting Nietzsche? A man of culture, I see
Capitalism Alienates us all. We are living in a fully capitalistic society and feeling it's worst side-effects.
@@trilacon1357 What do you want instead? For most of time before capitalism, the mission for most people was a constant struggle to survive.
"Habits are modern day solutions to ancient desires"
So Trueee
human desires
Just watching UA-cam is my habit
Atleast u watch postive things like this.
• I love Nothing but Peace so meh Right😬
*love & Peace is never guaranteed watching and reading self help is only positive if you take action. Otherwise it’s just as unhealthy as anything else.
@@egeniojaramillo9048 reading self helps books only helps u half way action is always key duh
Mine too!
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Bad Habits: Instant Rewards; Delayed Consequences;
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny
controlling our habits is controlling our destiny
Well said
You forgot throughs
It's said by great Chankya
With that reasoning, words control our destiny even more than our habits do :)
@@philzakhariadis I forgot the first one - "thoughts become our words" and indeed thoughts do control our destiny :)
15 minutes of Doulingo can teach you a language, what can 15 minutes of social media do?
Learning a language instead of social media is a nice solution, especially when you try to keep your streak...
To build a good habit:
1) Make it obvious
2) Make it attractive
3) Make it easy
4) Make it satisfying
To break a bad habit:
1) Make it impossible
2) Make it unattractive
3) Make it difficult
4) Make it unsatisfying
Thanks for the simple breakdown 👍
Replacing very easy habits, with ones that require effort, isn’t exactly an answer either. I do the bad habits because they don’t require effort. That’s why they help me in that moment.
You could also not save credit card info online to make it more of a task when buying useless things.
If Mike disabled his apps on his phone, that must have included UA-cam. Then he couldn't have learned from you
UA-cam is very important...if it's used wisely
I would put UA-cam in the learning/studying category rather than FB which can be mindlessly reading what other people had for lunch or what certificate someone’s grandchild got at school
@@cee2615 I don't do face book but I could spend hours on a rainy cold Saturday watching my fave videos
You can uninstall UA-cam and you can borrow you family or friends phone for one hour to check this kind of videos if you want. Don’t forget all is can possible but you must to stop complaining. All depends on you, be creative.
@@anthonyf7008 no complaints,but UA-cam is useful to me. I watch and learn from all of them
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Recently found this channel randomly and gave one video a shot. Then I watched another. Now I watch at least one a day (while I'm doing other things so I'm not losing valuable productivity time)...truly an amazing channel for self-motivation! Thank you for the hard work and awesome content!
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Your videos really helps me and others to life an effective life. I'm so glad I "accidentally" stumble on one of your videos. Thank you for taking your time out of your productive schedule to make videos that help people be better than yesterday.
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Thank you very much! Obviously your are doing a social service. People who understand this and do as explained, will definitely win.
Thank you for this great message 😇
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Keep on going man
Another amazing video. This guy's great. My huge take away way manipulating your surroundings so you can reinforce your new habit. Also, tracking your new habit so you can see how far you've already gone.
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Thanks for these. Ultimately, I know that my capacity to change will always be in my own hands, and that I will always be my own worst enemy, but I can use your videos as a refuge when I feel myself failing.
my bad habit was procrastinating and I always watched these turkish series on youtube. Now I only watch them whenever I am running on the mill, it helped me connect smth i rather not like with something i like and it motivated me. Also it helped keeping track on my daily progress when it came to studying. What did I do today? Sometimes even tho i study the whole day it isn't satisfying, bc it feels like i didn't really reach the goal of all the things i wanted to do, but when i write it down, i see how much I accomplished, that's the moment when i truly feel satisfied and it makes me keep going. I really recommend everyone to try different things, i never really thought i could be one of those who can manage their time and be hard working every day. I only watch your videos when I eat or are on the toilet, that's my new rule when it comes to youtube. I kept it for a week now, and I enjoy your videos every day :) Thank you
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I love this, man. This video wakes me up.
Great video- extremely informative! I love that you broke down common errors and step backs people face in the process.
Great video - thanks for your help. It is now putting what we know into action - that is the challenge
Thanks for creating this... and we need more videos like this...
Recently, I semi-quit a pornography addiction, it was something I fought for two yrs, and it was no joke. For a while, I was too afraid of admitting that I was addicted watching pornography, it ranged from watching it once a week to everyday, it wasted my time, made me feel miserable and made me see things I wish I didn’t see. Eventually I built up the courage to admit this problem, first with my cousin, then my parents after we had an argument about health issues. In December 2021, I told them and apologized for my actions, they forgive me and handled them the android phone where I was watching pornography, thus slowing down my addiction. Despite some relapses, I haven’t watched pornography in a week, I’m now 21 and I’m about to start college soon, though tbh I wish I started it 2 yrs earlier if I didn’t became addicted to watching pornography, but what’s important is that I haven’t watched it in a week and college is right around the corner, hoping to get a career in the film industry as a filmmaker, so at the very least, my life is headed in a direction that is fit, but still need to correct my mistakes and not relapse or give in since it does take time to recover. This was my story about how I’m slowly overcoming my pornography addiction and finding something to do with life now that I’m an adult.
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Wow just stumbled onto your channel and they're incredibly educational and informational, while still being very interesting ! I'm so excited to watch them all but I'm gonna try to have good habits and limit my time on UA-cam/internet for tonight ☺️ thanks for sharing all this great insight ❤️
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Currently I'm doing those habits but I feel I'm stagnant because I am no longer improve and challenge myself
I admire your videos because of it helps me, first learning English and improving my habits
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This video is so helpful!
I guess I am getting better than yesterday by watching videos from this channel !
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Such a helpful video! I’m going to write everything down tomorrow (going to sleep now 😴)
Thank you for this informative video. 😊
See my problem is I don't want to spend the rest of my life fighting with habits I ingrained into my psyche as a kid. I always go back to them. And if I can't achieve permanent and eventually effortless change I don't want to keep trying. It's pointless and demotivating, exhausting, and makes me constantly feel badly about myself. I'm actually getting sick of the self improvement hamster wheel. I just want to live. I just want to be myself. I'm so tired. But when I stop trying my life falls into utter chaos. Is this what I have to live with the rest of my life?
I feel you bro, same thing with me
The definition of a habit, H, is a thing you do automatically without thought
Nothing is completely a habit (I can smoke a cigarette w/out realizing but I consously found the pack, so everything is relative)
It us also useful to define an anti-habbit, A, as a process you think about constantly and are totally aware of every step (exercise for some approaches A, one can dread it all day; seemingly count every breath and second until its over, then feel guilt of not doing more overlapping dread of the next one)
It sounds like you would like to reduce the "H character" of some things. Statistically this is best done by changing the environment. It may never go away completely, but slowly you'll spend more time not thinking about it or doing it.
As the video above mentioned, finding some "Aish" activity that can somewhat replace the "habbit" helps alot. (This is done by doing the positive thing more often and consistently)
it's easier said than done, watch his videos on "elastic goals" for help adding H character while reducing A character (of a goal). Also his goals vs systems video can help.
*TL,DR no, your not doomed forever, it will get better. But its not easy and consistency is key*
Also, everyone gets sick of the hamster wheel, but with even the most elastic goals everyone fails now and then
@@elainelorimer818 have you been able to do it? My problem is that I can't replace my bad habits with good ones. I always just go back to the original habit.
TL TLDR DR
That ended up long, basically small steps and setting your self up for success are what matters. You'll never "replace" your habit, but you'll have more good days than bad days eventually as time rolls on.
Don't discount any step (no matter how small, forward is forward; back is back)
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Best video bro thank you very much
I have quitted most of the bad habits. No more junk food, no more smoking, no more alcohol, not having TV in my house, deleted social media sites and games from my phone 😇🅰️
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Lol. This video in 9:10 make me remember the video named "Stop Using Your Willpower - Do This Instead" of this same channel, with that thing of if you spent too much time or money in something and you're starting to feel bad with that, it's hard to quit cause you spend a lot on that and gets harder in more you spend.
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@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 those transgendahhhs???
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This is so smart, wtf. I’ll try this out after final exams end.
Although...what if a “bad habit” of yours is OCD?
OCD have same treatment. But it has medicinal addition for help.
Check out the book "Brain Lock."
Best quote: With bad habits, the rewards are immediate and the consequences come later. It s vice versa with good habits
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Where have you been when I was younger ?? :(
Very intersting, the problem is, when your bad habits is being a sucker for informations, on internet or books (internet is more immediate), for good relations ( even too many) and you work as a photographer ( you cannot uninstall instagram) the things start to get very difficult so work.
The problem is that even what a good habit can become a bad habit if you don't have self control and you search for dopamine, look at some people in the gyms...it's the trickyiest stuff to get around.
Everything he said was valuable.
This is from the book atomic habits, good summary !
I think you should make another video on effect of observing on habit and its whole movement, how it is triggered and what is its end desire, from beginning to the end, the art of observation.
Nice thank you :)
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For me I try mini habits to avoid bed habits it's very useful method.
Highly recommend james clear's atomic habits for a very similar but more in depth read on the topic
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