#1 Habit Expert: Here's how you become dramatically better

All right, Charles, I wanna show you something. So in two thousand and fourteen I wrote about how I lost weight, but previously I used your book a year before because I had a little bit of a drinking issue and it was frankly was kinda ruining my life. And I read your book and the idea of the habit loop. Change my life. And That's why I'm so excited to talk to you.

I feel like I caroose Well be what I want to I put my law in it like a day song on the road less travel never. Your book changed my life. probably more than any book I've ever read. And I have read probably thousands of books. So I'll tell you the story. So basically, uh yeah, I had like an issue with with alcohol.

And I read your book and you you can correct me if I'm wrong, but the way that I distinctly remember it is that a habit doesn't go away. You just have to change part of the routine and replace it. That's exactly right. one of the ways that people continue being stuck on this treadmill, and this sounds very oversimplified, but it's true in my case. Like you start like craving carbohydrates the day after you drink. Like you still crave because I was drinking like twenty beers a day and I still craved like the sugar. And so I actually just made a small habit. Every time I wanted to uh drink alcohol, a beer

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