Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He talks about the science of neurology of habit formation. He starts off by telling about a study that shows if you stop activating the upper leg muscles, you stop being smart, your memory decreases so you need to engage that part of your muscles. A study according to British publications came out that it will let you remember things for 30 minutes only. He is a reporter for The New York Times and is the author of a book called the power of habit which is about the neurology of habit formation. As he was talking to neurologists and psychologists about habit formation, he learned two things:1. we are living in this golden age of understanding what habits are and how they work
2. at the end of each conversation with someone we’ve learned about breaking down habits and making them different.
Dr.Ann Graybiel is a researcher at MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a foremost neurologist. She wanted to know how can one get sensors into rat's cranium and she was able to get 75 sensors into a rat's cranium. She put a rat in maze and found out that a rat will take 30 minutes to find a hidden chocolate. With the help of a neurological graph she found out that the brain of the rats starts to think and gradually finding the chocolate becomes a habit.
Habits are choices that you continue doing repeatedly without actually thinking about them and Habit has three steps:
A cue which is a trigger that tells your brain which habit to use and puts it into automatic mode.
A routine which acts out the habit and it can be physical, mental, or emotional.
A reward which is the result of the routine and reinforces the habit.
The good news is that by consciously recognizing your cues and rewards, you can combat your habits.
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