The Habit Loop explains that all habits are formed in a four-stage procedure: cue, craving, response, and reward
It is a cue when something urges the brain to elicit a behavior. Once triggered, you begin to crave the behavior. Until you respond to this need, your emotions will continue to be all over the place. Responding to desires gets you a reward. You repeat your actions and create a habit loop when you receive the benefit.
⚡️Each habit has an aim represented by the reward it gives.
The cue shows you the reward. Then you desire the prize. By responding, you put in the work to get it. Rewards serve us in two ways:
- Satisfaction
- Teaching
For behavior to form, all four stages — cue, craving, response, and reward — must be present. There are two groups for stages:
- Problem Phase: cue and the craving
- Solution Phase: response and the reward
To create good habits, you can adopt these four principles of behavior change:
- Make it clear.
- Make it enticing.
- Make it simple
- Make it enjoyable.
Inverting these laws also serves to eliminate bad habits.
- Make it disappear.
- Make it unattractive.
- Make it difficult.
- Make it unrewarding.