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“I stopped eating unhealthy food via identity change,” he wrote. “I tried many times in the past, but it became easy — natural — only after I had made the conscious decision that I want to be someone who eats healthy. Our habits can become so ingrained in our daily routines that they can start to define us. However, while some might seem impossible to break, research shows that behavioural changes are possible through focused effort and building new neural pathways in our brains.
A habit forms when we repeat behaviours in a stable context. This "reinforces a mental context-behaviour association" - i.e. the context triggers an impulse to perform the habitual behaviour. During habitual behaviours, we might not be aware of the behaviour, have a specific intention to perform the behaviour or make a cognitive effort during the behaviour. Habit formation reduces the demand on our memory and attention, and habit regulates behaviour more than conscious intention.
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A habit forms when we repeat behaviours in a stable context. This "reinforces a mental context-behaviour association" - i.e. the context triggers an impulse to perform the habitual behaviour. During habitual behaviours, we might not be aware of the behaviour, have a specific intention to perform the behaviour or make a cognitive effort during the behaviour. Habit formation reduces the demand on our memory and attention, and habit regulates behaviour more than conscious intention.
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