To develop a specific habit takes around 25 days. We owe this information to Maxwell Maltz, an important plastic surgeon. He had observed that amputees took around 20 days to adjust to the loss of a limb. Therefore, he reasoned it must take 21-28 days to change a habit. This knowledge is called “the 28 rule”.
The 28 rule was ruled out for an experiment of an important university. On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily, took 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had changed. Individuals ranged widely: some took 18 days, others 245 and some habits were harder than others to make a change.
The first problem with this 28 rule is very simple: changing habits is hard. The psychologist Ian Newby-Clark asks:"what would be the point of having a habit that didn't free up your mind to crunch on more pressing matters?" Habits are meant to be difficult to change.
The mainly problem in the moment we change a habit is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We want to stop watching so much TV, but demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV, so what we really want, it seems, is to stop wanting. The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs. What's required isn't a better habit, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken, Dr Johnson says that maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still change an habit in a very bit time.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/10/change-your-life-habit-28-day-rule
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To develop a specific habit takes around 25 days. We owe this information to Maxwell Maltz, an important plastic surgeon. He had observed that amputees took around 20 days to adjust to the loss of a limb. Therefore, he reasoned it must take 21-28 days to change a habit. This knowledge is called “the 28 rule”.
ResponderEliminarThe 28 rule was ruled out for an experiment of an important university. On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily, took 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had changed. Individuals ranged widely: some took 18 days, others 245 and some habits were harder than others to make a change.
The first problem with this 28 rule is very simple: changing habits is hard. The psychologist Ian Newby-Clark asks:"what would be the point of having a habit that didn't free up your mind to crunch on more pressing matters?" Habits are meant to be difficult to change.
The WF mainly problem in the moment we change a habit is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We want to stop watching so much TV, but demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV, so what we really want, it seems, is to stop wanting. The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs. What's required isn't a better habit, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken, Dr Johnson says that maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still change an habit in a very bit time.
interesting... how would the problem be looked differently?
miss
p.s. you got a 6.5