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How to Increase Friction for Bad Habits
Reducing the friction associated with good habits won't work perfectly if the friction associated with bad habits are very easy and simple, the author suggested that as we are making the friction of performing good habits easy , we should also make that of bad habits difficult , how can we do that then ?
You can deliberately do this by adding obstacles to the bad habits using the methods below.
Ways to Increase Friction for Bad Habits:
- Make Bad Habits Less Convenient :
Example of this is , let's say that you want to avoid distraction, you can keep your phone in another room while you are studying.
If you want to prevent over spending , you can decide to keep your credit card at home and only come out with the exact amount of money you need for the shopping. Website Blockers can also be a great tool for preventing excessive use of social media.
Make it in such a way that extra steps is needed in other to engage with the bad habits,