Moment 49 - How To Form Habits That Actually Stick: Professor Steve Peters

Uh Steve's invented this groundbreaking concept called the chimp model, and it focuses on how there's these kind of three parts to our brain. The first part is called the chimp. which is our sort of desire to be impulsive and irrational and emotional and short term. The second part is what he calls the human, which is logical and rational, and thin terms of facts and thinks things through in the long term. And the third part is what he calls the computer, which is our set of core values and beliefs. Steve's work focuses on how we can manage and control the interaction between these two parts of our brain. One of the things you talk about extensively is about forming habits. And um

A lot of people in my life recently, including myself, have tried to be tried to form habits, especially during the lockdown when so much of our lives was um our habits were broken, our cycles were broken because we were all trapped in our houses. So whether we, you know, had formed a habit of going to the Starbucks than the gym in the morning or whatever. We had our habits broken. So I spent a lot of time thinking about how I could form healthier habits in my life. One of them was working out every day. Um But I and one of the sort of I guess popular narratives is that if you do something for twenty one days, it becomes a habit. What is the truth about habits and how we form them? I mean, there's a lot of research on this and they're a little bit contradictory. Sure. So read and believe what you like. But I mean the general feel is that if you look at why we form a habit

It's either consciously done with a belief system under or it's unconsciously done. We aren't thinking about it. A common one, for example, uh a poor habit is Uh and I use this a lot when I do keynote speeches to say to people when you go home, if you're with a partner that you love, um How do you present to them when you arrive? And it's amazing how most people mourn.

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