Today marks day 15 of reading Atomic Habits, in this chapter review, we will learn about making habits satisfying.
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This chapter follows up Chapter 14, where we learned about making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.
Chapter Summary:
- “The 4th Law of Behavior Change is make it satisfying.” If a task it satisfying then we will be a lot more likely to do the task. I feel like this is why a lot of YouTubers end up quitting prematurely, they don’t receive the satisfaction in likes, or views, so they just stop making content.
- “We are more likely to repeat a behavior when the experience is satisfying.” Like I said in the last paragraph, we have to make a task satisfying or we risk quitting prematurely.
- “The human brain evolved to prioritize immediate rewards over delayed rewards.” This is why we so often give into things like Tiktok. Our brain gets that immediate reward from Tiktok, which is why rewards from things that might bring us more purpose are less prioritized, because they don’t have immediate reward.
- “The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change: What is immediately rewarded is repeated. What is immediately punished is avoided.” Tiktok is very addictive and that’s because it’s immediately rewarding, but the opposite is also the reason why we didn’t keep coming back to the hot stove as a kid to touch it again after it burned us the first time.
- “To get a habit to stick you need to feel immediately successful even if it’s in a small way.” I may be wrong about this, but I feel like this is what makes working out with someone else feel a lot easier. Once we finish doing a set we get immediate reward in encouragement from our workout partner, but when we workout alone, we don’t as easily get this reward from ourselves.
- “The first three laws of behavior change-make it obvious, make it attractive, and make it easy-increase the odds that a behavior will be performed this time. The fourth law of behavior change-make it satisfying-increases the odds that a behavior will be repeated next time.” You could look at this as a formula, make it obvious, make it attractive and make it easy = higher chance of doing the behavior, pair that with make it satisfying at the end and it increases your odds of doing the task again.
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