![]() She was assisted by software on her end to handle what I imagine to be a large number of students. Mine was Shirley Rivera, who greeted me (via the magic of scheduled emails) every day via email, helped me when I had problems with certain habits, and sent me follow-up material to my questions. Second, the course links you up with a Tiny Habits coach. ![]() This behavioural prod forces you to take the course seriously - even though it only lasts five days, and even though you’ve signed up for free. You have to sign up for a slot a few weeks in advance, and are warned the Sunday before the course starts to enter your habit recipes into the course website - or risk losing the slot! Why This Worksįogg’s method works for a number of ingenious reasons.įirst, his course - while free - requires active commitment from the participant. The great thing about Fogg’s course, however, is that he gives you tools to debug habits that don’t seem to take. After I lie down in bed to sleep, I will take up my kindle.Īll three habits have outlasted the program thus far - with the possible exception of the third habit (I sometimes fall asleep before I successfully start reading).After I put my dirty clothes in the hamper after my morning shower, I will open my vitamin container.After I make coffee using my Aeropress, I will take a deep breath 5 times.Here are mine, copied verbatim from the internal course web app: You are asked to choose three habit recipes for the duration of the week. After the five days, the thinking goes, your habit will be fully formed, and you will continue to do it long after the course has ended. Fogg tells you to make a tiny habit by using the following recipe format: “After I …, I will …”įor our example of tooth flossing, Fogg suggests the tiny habit recipe “ After I brush, I will floss one tooth.” You then make a commitment to perform this habit over the course of five days - which is the length of the free course. Say, for instance, you want to turn flossing your teeth into a habit. You might also recall that there are only five types of triggers in the habit-formation literature: location, time, emotional state, other people, and immediately preceding action.įogg’s approach uses this last trigger type as the basis of its habit formation. You’ll remember from my summary of Duhigg’s book that a habit consists of three elements: BJ Fogg, founder and director of the Stanford Behaviour Design Lab The Approachįogg’s approach in Tiny Habits is to stake habit formation to another existing behaviour. ![]() ![]() This post is a quick review of my experience, and a reflection of why Fogg’s methods work in the context of habit formation research. I walked away with three new habits, a sense of wonder at his approach, and a renewed appreciation for the differences between reading a book about practice and actually putting those ideas into practice. I completed Fogg’s course at the end of last week. It’s free, it’s immensely practical, it’s short, and it’s already started delivering results for me. I said, in the conclusion of that piece: I’ll reiterate my advice from earlier: if you’ve read this far in my post, go apply these new ideas to your own life by signing up for BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits course. Yesterday, I published a summary of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, arguing that a self-interested reader would do better to read my summary and then go sign up for BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits course. ![]()
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