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Building New Habits-
By Perfectionist.
Say you want to quit an old bad harmful habit of yours, and you can't seem to leave it for good.
Then this thread is for you.
To build a new habit, takes a long time, but here I'll just give some basic tips to make new hobbies within a few months.
To begin with, you need to focus on repitition, where you repeatedly do a good habit rather than a bad one multiple times. This is due to the fact that the brain seeks to conserve energy by moving the behavior to the basal ganglia, a deeper region involved in motor control and procedural learning. Moreover, a process called long term potentiation (LTP)
Additionally, begin with micro-habits, where you do the smallest changes (this causes the ultimate change) . For example, you could lift weights or do something that is beneficial for 5 minutes daily, now this creates a repitition and as a result your brain renders it as a normal thing and you could gradually increase the time of the habit. (Be careful and go slowly, great things take time)
“"Making health habitual: the psychology of 'habit-formation' and general practice" (2012) - Lally, P., et al. (University College London)”This study found that if something becomes a normal thing that is done on a regular basis, then it occurs on average around 66 days after it's first performance. Although there is a wide range of days that depends.
Thank you for reading this.

