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Julia Dhar

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The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

I know.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

You're like, I'd like the four days.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Can I choose that first option?

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Do we get to pick how many days?

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

And if so, four.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

I'd like it to take four days.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Things you can do to bring yourself closer to four days rather than 256 days.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Number one, you can write it down.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Number two, you can tell somebody else about it.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

So that's a clearly articulate your goal.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

You can make it visible and social to people.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

And you can shift your environment, shift the context in which you operate to make it less likely that the habit is available or attractive to you as well.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

So this is the other thing I feel like is the problem with the 90-day thing.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

And I wonder if you have the same thought, which is it takes 90 days to break a bad habit.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

But once you're past that, if you keep the habit for the rest of your life, who's to say it didn't take one day?

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Then what happens?

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Do you know what I mean?

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

Exactly.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

So it's like 90 days to set a new habit.

The Psychology of your 20s
424. How to ACTUALLY change your bad habits ft. Harvard Behavioural Scientist, Julia Dhar

So it's like, well, if I go back to smoking or whatever on day 100, you know what I mean?