The Loop Of Habits In My Life

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The Loop of Habits in my Life How do habits emerge? A Habit is the behavior that we humans repeat it regularly and it happens subconsciously in our daily life. However, the brain is constantly seeking new ways to save effort, and the brain is always putting sequences of action in to daily our routines. Furthermore in the book titled The Power of Habit by author Charles Duhigg, he demonstrates how we get use to habits in our daily life and a how habit is performed, which makes our brain follow that action. We have to reward ourselves after completing any action and that action is called routine. However, training our brain to make good habits like helping someone although there is no actual reward you always feel good about lending …show more content…

Losing your temper is an action, which leads to losing control of you mind. This habit is considered as the most known habit in 21st century. Losing temper quickly for me was when I started attending my school career. The reason behind it was when I would not get the lecture in my classes and when I would get bad grades in my classes and more. Afterward it started growing as a habit and I would get mad at small things such as, if I would not get my food on time I would loss my temper on my mom. However, this habit impacts me very bad as I started losing my relationship with my brothers and friend. Somehow I started to read books and do research to change my habit. Unfortunately I’ve had some experiences in the past where I …show more content…

It got embarrassing when I started going to school and working however my guests would look at me like I have family problems or stressed about something. “ Most people’s habits have occurred for so long they don’t pay attention…” the author Brad Dufrene explains sometime we follow habits that will have negative impact on our future life and we even do not pay attention to them until we face them. So for me as kid it was fine until I grow up as adult I realized that this nail biting habit is not good for my health. However, I had to quit biting my nails because I would feel embarrassed with this

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