We as humans are creatures of habit that are averse to change. But how do you ensure the creation of positive habits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our minds tend to lean towards the comfortable and familiar. That is why trying new things can seem scary to some people and to those who are actively seeking it will at least have a certain excitement because of the unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is de hoofdoorzaak van luiheid en waarom iemand doorgaans de neiging heeft om televisie te kijken in plaats van te gaan sporten. Mensen zijn gewoontedieren en als er een vaste routine van vertrouwdheid is, zal de activiteit natuurlijker en minder vervelend lijken. Om routinematig deel te nemen aan gezonde en productieve activiteiten, is de beste manier om dit te doen door positieve gewoonten vast te leggen in plaats van de ongewenste “bad habits”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In het boek “The Happiness Advantage<\/a><\/em>” van psycholoog Shawn Achor zegt hij dat de techniek die hij de 20 seconden-regel noemt, kan worden gebruikt om goede gewoonten op te bouwen en slechte gewoontes te doorbreken door het sneller en gemakkelijker te maken om een goede gewoonte uit te voeren en omgekeerd langer en moeilijker om een slechte gewoonte uitvoeren. Kortom, onze geest voor de gek houden om gewenste activiteiten te verkiezen boven ongewenste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shawn legt uit dat wilskracht alleen jezelf niet kan motiveren om deel te nemen aan activiteiten die als hinderlijk worden beschouwd. Volgens Shawn vereist elke actie de zogenaamde “activation energy<\/a>” en in het algemeen vereisen productieve taken zoals werk meer van dit soort activeringsenergie in vergelijking met vrijetijdstaken zoals klakkeloos surfen op het internet. Wilskracht is een beperkte hulpbron voor de bovengenoemde activeringsenergie en deze kan dus opraken; daarom is het onbetrouwbaar voor het cre\u00ebren van (goede) habits<\/a> in the long-term. This is why we become lazy: we no longer have willpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Als we de wilskracht niet hebben, zullen we geneigd zijn de weg van de minste weerstand te kiezen; plezier > werk. Om dezelfde redenen waarom iemand meer op internet surft dan om te werken, kan luiheid in ons voordeel worden gebruikt om de hersenen te misleiden om meer ‘moeilijke’ taken uit te voeren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shawn describes in his book that he wanted to practice guitar, but encountered his own mental resistance. His guitar is stored in the cupboard; to participate in the activity of playing the guitar, he should go to the closet and take it out of his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This sequence of events is certainly not difficult, but compared to just staying on the couch and turning on the television, it is much more inconvenient. So this is the case of activation energy difference, sitting on the couch watching TV with the remote is much easier than walking up to the cabinet and taking the guitar out of the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So with this knowledge, Shawn changed several factors to lower the activation energy of practicing the guitar and increase the activation energy of watching television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writer Shawn Achor took his guitar out of the closet, out of the case, and set it next to the couch in front of the TV. He then removed the batteries from the remote and kept them in another room. The next time Shawn came back from work, his habit kicked in and he wanted to lie on the couch and watch TV. But instead, he found the process of getting up and grabbing the batteries for the remote in another room more difficult than picking up the guitar lying right next to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here the activation energy of picking up the guitar is much lower than getting the batteries. He used his own laziness to his advantage and at the same time broke his habit and started a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After learning about this mentioned method from Shawn, it is very easy to replicate such changes to make working on your positive habits more appealing than wasting your free time uselessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, in the context of focus and productivity in your work, you can place the smartphone in another room to focus on your work. If the phone is needed for work, rearrange the apps on the home screen and put all the distracting leisure apps like YouTube and social media apps in hidden folders. If you need focus and are working on an offline project, turn off your internet connection, for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The key is to make sure that working on your desired positive habit is easier than falling back into the bad, easy habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources ao JamesClear (AND<\/a>), Jobs4All (AND<\/a>), ModelThinkers (AND<\/a>), PQCWorks (EN), TheDecisionLab (AND<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wij als mensen zijn gewoontedieren die wars zijn van verandering. Maar hoe zorg je nu voor het cree\u00ebren van positieve gewoonten? Onze geest heeft de neiging om te neigen naar het comfortabele en vertrouwde. Dat is de reden waarom het proberen van nieuwe dingen voor sommige mensen eng kan lijken en voor degenen die er […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,30,150,145,130,27,153,32,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to proceed without willpower?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Reduce the activation energy required<\/h2>\n\n\n\n