Vanessa Hill

But when we think about habits and forming habits, there's a habit loop that people may have heard of where there's a cue, so the trigger and the reason why you do that behavior, and then there's a reward after that.

It's like, what are you getting out of that?

And that can really reinforce different behaviors.

So the first thing that we did with people was we had them monitor their behavior for a few weeks and kind of track why they were procrastinating their bedtime, like what was the cue or the trigger that led them to do that.

And it's really interesting because it could just be a time of day.

It could just be 11 o'clock at night.

Every day at 11, I just start watching YouTube videos or scrolling TikTok or whatever it may be.

It could be an emotion that you've had.

Some people dread going to bed.

They don't want the day to end or they don't want to have to get up to go to work in the morning.

There's this concept called tomorrow aversion where people are like, oh, gosh, I don't want tomorrow to start.

but my work time and now is my fun time, you know, so it could just be this emotion or it could be a room, a place in your house.

You could walk into your bedroom and just flop down on your bed on a chair and just open up Instagram and just start scrolling or whatever it may be.

So we really got people to monitor what the trigger was for their behavior and then what was the reward.

So what were you getting out of it?

Was it fun for you?

Was it entertaining?

Was it

filling your need for me time?

Were you finding community or identity?