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An interesting experiment was carried out by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
A group of 20 people was created. Each was given glasses with lenses that turned the image upside down, and they had to be in them for 30 days.
After 20 - 25 days, their brains are so accustomed to seeing this in the projection that the "miracle" of the lens gave it, that they perceived the imaginary reality as reality, i.e. the brain itself turned the image over. The peak of the image flips was on the 21st day.
This group of 20 people was divided into two. 10 people continued to wear glasses, the second group was asked to take off their glasses for one day. It also took them the same 20 - 25 days to get used to the real reality back!
Hence, there is a popular belief that a habit can be created in 21 days!
But there is one inaccuracy: the astronauts wore glasses 24 hours a day, i.e. constantly. If you calculate, then minus sleep, it took more than 300 hours to develop this habit. Therefore, according to many experts, it actually takes more than three months to develop a habit.
The following stages of habit development are noted:
0. Made a decision. An important stage, but without reinforcement by action, you are still at the zero stage of habit formation.
1. Did it at least once. (to budge is the most important thing).
2. Did two days in a row.
(One day to get up at any time is not difficult, but two days in a row requires effort. After taking a shower, you can tell yourself that from that moment you began to develop a habit, but whether this is really so, the next day will show).
3. Did it during the week.
(overcoming the social factor - doing something all week, INCLUDING weekends).
4.21 days.
(the time after which the new habit will be fixed in consciousness and become fully conscious).
5.40 days.
(the time after which the habit will be fixed completely, until you develop the opposite).
6.90 days.
(100% habit acquisition time).
BUT! It is worth losing the course and returning to old habits, it takes the same amount of time to re-inculcate them.
For example, if you were going to run in the morning, ran for 21 days, it became a habit and you ran like this for a couple of weeks, and then left this business, after 21 days the habit was gone. Regularity is a very important criterion. If there were gaps, then the above hierarchy of stages is useless - it only works for activities that have not been interrupted. For example, I got up at 5 am for 4 days in a row, but did not get up on the 5th. What stage are you at? At the zero stage of developing the habit of getting up at 5 am and at the first stage of getting rid of this habit.
SO:
- If you decide to cultivate a habit, then consciously monitor your actions for three months. Only after this period, you can more or less relax
- If you take a break for a while, then you can safely add it to the period of cultivation of the habit.
- Once you decide to develop a habit, make every effort to follow it without exception. No matter how you feel, no matter what the circumstances, once you have made a decision - act, stand your ground to the end!
A group of 20 people was created. Each was given glasses with lenses that turned the image upside down, and they had to be in them for 30 days.
After 20 - 25 days, their brains are so accustomed to seeing this in the projection that the "miracle" of the lens gave it, that they perceived the imaginary reality as reality, i.e. the brain itself turned the image over. The peak of the image flips was on the 21st day.
This group of 20 people was divided into two. 10 people continued to wear glasses, the second group was asked to take off their glasses for one day. It also took them the same 20 - 25 days to get used to the real reality back!
Hence, there is a popular belief that a habit can be created in 21 days!
But there is one inaccuracy: the astronauts wore glasses 24 hours a day, i.e. constantly. If you calculate, then minus sleep, it took more than 300 hours to develop this habit. Therefore, according to many experts, it actually takes more than three months to develop a habit.
The following stages of habit development are noted:
0. Made a decision. An important stage, but without reinforcement by action, you are still at the zero stage of habit formation.
1. Did it at least once. (to budge is the most important thing).
2. Did two days in a row.
(One day to get up at any time is not difficult, but two days in a row requires effort. After taking a shower, you can tell yourself that from that moment you began to develop a habit, but whether this is really so, the next day will show).
3. Did it during the week.
(overcoming the social factor - doing something all week, INCLUDING weekends).
4.21 days.
(the time after which the new habit will be fixed in consciousness and become fully conscious).
5.40 days.
(the time after which the habit will be fixed completely, until you develop the opposite).
6.90 days.
(100% habit acquisition time).
BUT! It is worth losing the course and returning to old habits, it takes the same amount of time to re-inculcate them.
For example, if you were going to run in the morning, ran for 21 days, it became a habit and you ran like this for a couple of weeks, and then left this business, after 21 days the habit was gone. Regularity is a very important criterion. If there were gaps, then the above hierarchy of stages is useless - it only works for activities that have not been interrupted. For example, I got up at 5 am for 4 days in a row, but did not get up on the 5th. What stage are you at? At the zero stage of developing the habit of getting up at 5 am and at the first stage of getting rid of this habit.
SO:
- If you decide to cultivate a habit, then consciously monitor your actions for three months. Only after this period, you can more or less relax
- If you take a break for a while, then you can safely add it to the period of cultivation of the habit.
- Once you decide to develop a habit, make every effort to follow it without exception. No matter how you feel, no matter what the circumstances, once you have made a decision - act, stand your ground to the end!
