#581: The Tiny Habits That Change Everything

Behavior happens when three things come together at the same moment: a motivation to do the behavior, an ability to do the behavior, and a prompt.

People are set up to believe that taking 10,000 steps a day will lead to weight loss; I challenge that notion. I don't think 10,000 steps a day is very effective for weight loss. It's great for other things, but weight loss is primarily a function of nutrition, and then after that, in my amateur opinion, strength training.

The emotion you feel as you perform the new behavior is what wires it into your brain as a habit. In other words, it's emotions that create habits.

What we seem to be terrible at as human beings is projecting our future levels of motivation.