{"id":10652,"date":"2011-01-04T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2011-01-04T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T02:45:17","slug":"behavior-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10652","title":{"rendered":"Behavior Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend called to tell me she is reading a book on how to be happy &#8211; she said this guy has written about the Blue Zones &#8211; places where people live long lives &#8211; the places are, drumroll please, Singapore (are you kidding me?), Denmark (good design, but again, are you kidding me?) and Costa Rica &#8211; I&#8217;ll take Costa Rica for five. Meanwhile, Stanford has a <a href=\"http:\/\/captology.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> where they have listed the ten mistakes people make in trying to change behavior and I must admit, they are not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Top #1 Mistake &#8211; Relying on willpower for long-term change &#8211; imagine willpower doesn&#8217;t exist &#8211; that is step 1 to a better future.<\/p>\n<p>Top #2 Mistake &#8211; Attempting big leaps instead of baby steps &#8211; seek tiny successes one after another (and I suggest you acknowledge each minor victory)<\/p>\n<p>Top #3 Mistake &#8211; Ignoring how environment shapes behaviors &#8211; change your context and you change your life (if that ain&#8217;t the truth, then I&#8217;m a monkey&#8217;s uncle)<\/p>\n<p>Top #4 Mistake &#8211; Trying to stop old behaviors instead of creating new ones &#8211; focus on action, not avoidance<\/p>\n<p>Top #5 Mistake &#8211; Blaming failures on lack of motivation &#8211; solution: make the behavior easier to do<\/p>\n<p>Top #6 Mistake &#8211; Underestimating the power of triggers &#8211; no behavior happens without a trigger<\/p>\n<p>Top #7 Mistake &#8211; Believing that information leads to action &#8211; we humans aren&#8217;t so rational<\/p>\n<p>Top #8 Mistake &#8211; Focusing on abstract goals more than concrete behaviors &#8211; abstract: get in shape, concrete: walk 15 mins a day<\/p>\n<p>Top #9 Mistake &#8211; Seeking to change a behavior forever, not for a short time. A fixed period works better than forever.<\/p>\n<p>Top #10 Mistake &#8211; Assuming that behavior change is difficult &#8211; behavior change is not so hard when you have the right process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend called to tell me she is reading a book on how to be happy &#8211; she said this guy has written about the Blue Zones &#8211; places where people live long lives &#8211; the places are, drumroll please, Singapore (are you kidding me?), Denmark (good design, but again, are you kidding me?) and Costa Rica &#8211; I&#8217;ll take Costa Rica for five. Meanwhile, Stanford has a site where they have listed the ten&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2LO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10653,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}