Julia Dhar

And it's like, well, the time is passing anyways.

And like all you had to do was be present in that moment and not or do the thing that you said you were going to do and you have this whole new life.

So they're very interesting.

Yeah.

This is a question I have highlighted on my question list that I really want to ask you.

I'm sure a lot of us have heard about the magic number that it takes 90 days to break a bad habit.

This is a very viral idea.

Is that true?

No.

I don't know exactly how long it takes to break a habit.

I feel very confident that the answer is not 90 days most of the time.

And

We can all think about, and it's a really easy way to disprove this, which is we can all think of examples of a friend or a relative, perhaps ourselves, who one day says, I have decided to quit smoking, for example, or quit drinking or take up exercising.

And they somehow do.

Then for the rest of their life, that person doesn't do that thing anymore.

And we can equally think about people at the opposite end of the spectrum who, with a lot of advice, with a lot of encouragement, are not able to change or evolve, maybe even with a lot of attempts to break a bad habit.

There's good evidence that suggests that to really internalize a new habit in your mind can take anywhere from between four and about 255 days, which is obviously a really wide spectrum in terms of creating and establishing new neural pathways in your brain so that whatever the behavior is becomes automatic.

There are for sure things we can do to make it easier because I could imagine people saying, I'd like it to take four days rather than 256 days.

I was thinking that.

I'm with you.