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Yeah same here but as said below there are worse habits but the time just flitters away so quickly. The time can be used to get out and do different things, meet people learn new things practically.
I'm on day 10 of a wholefoods plantbased diet. It's been so LONG since I'd been able to control my binge eating urges. Now sticking to this and feeling good. Can't believe it tbh. I've tried so much over the last year.
I read the book. It's a good read but he tells little on how to break the habits that too at the end of the book. But frank you got the golden nugget for what the book is actually telling us.
Probably the most amazing video on TH-cam!!!!!!! As a psychology student motivated by self-improvement, this very nicely and concisely puts together the principles and applications of behavioural analysis! Well done.
Good video. I wasn’t even searching for my habit (also energy drinks and nail biting), but still found this video accidentally and it’s very helpful. Thanks a lot.
my bad habit is procrastination. I fix it by giving myself a "reward for doing it/consequence for not doing it" basically for example I can't go on my phone until I finish what I need to get done, something like that.
Dr.Chisum at Arizona State University is doing research on behavior change and goes in to great detail on these things. It is greatly recommended if you are looking for more stuff to research! Thank you for your videos/podcasts the podcasts are the best to listen to in the car on the way to school.
To be honest I just became mostly productive now in my life because I've already failed so much already that I just had enough of it now and I just really wanna suceed. So for me the world pretty much fucked me up so bad that I was now determined to do everything I can in my power to suceed.
Rememeber to wash your teeth and skin every day (showering), wash hands everytime you come back from outside or touched something unclean or what you suspect to be unclean (no need to panic)
Here I am. I left crack. And still looking for videos to help me go back to exercise every day. Now. 6 months pregnant. I can change my habits. I know. I've done it. I'll make it :)
6:41 *Thomas "Remove as much acses to that bad habit as you can!" *Me "I have trouble with the habit of biting my nails... CUT OFF MY HAND!!!!" Bye the way, Thank you so much, AWESOME video, really helped me!!!!!!!!!!😍😍
I am on a 1 year challenge of no Soda or carborated drinks, because I have been drinking way to much mountain dew and I need to stop. Especially that I am diabetic.
Cue: Seeing Taco Bell on my > Routine: drive to my mother's which is always a > Reward: because I get three Double-Cheesy Beefy Potato Burritos that keeps the late, late night > cravings coming! While surfing the net, munching on deliciousness and wondering how I can break this nasty habit of mine I saw Mr. Thomas Frank's new video! just what I needed to hear! Thanks, dude :D!
I tried quiting these things cold turkey thinking it would be simple as just stopping. On the first day within 3 hours cold sweats clammy hands I felt like I was going to pass out this stuff is no good and I have an addiction to it how do I quit. I also believe this stuff shouldn't be sold anyone under the age of 18 and it should have a surgeon general's warning
I had been biting my nails since the last 15 years. A month ago I somehow managed to grow them to a good length but then got to it again! I really need help
The best way to break a bad habit is to replace it with something else. For example, I quit smoking cigarettes and started smoking crack cocaine. Now I never think about smoking cigarettes because all I want is crack.
Wonderful video I have shared my knowledge and wisdom I gained from this video and now I am seeing improvement within our dojo. Thank you! @Thomas Frank
Hi thomas thank you for making very interesting and useful videos with very well thought of content it really shows how much you have researched! Hopefully u can see this comment or even other viewers can reply on how you can manage group projects as a leader In high school and now uni i always end up being leader or sub leader that in the end acts as a leader the problem is it seems in the end as if i am doing half of the work, even though we have distributed the work, can u please share what exactly i am doing wrong or maybe some tips on how to manage this kind of issue ? Thank you again 💪🏻❤️
I have been trying to quit weed for years, i was a fuckin monster of smoking weed everyday. What worked for me was listening to subliminal possitive affirmations of the person i wanted to be while i was asleep, and the craving just dissapeared
lol well then u clearly don't need *my* advice... like how is 30 minutes a day way too much time!? Anyway, i had no idea you could disable recommendations though. thanks for the tip
@@rajishkhatri9639 Yeah basically what Pro-Ballers said: just describe in detail what you are literally doing in the moment when you are watch it. "Ok so I am watching some random a** people I've never met nor seen in real life have sex" That should make you realize that what you are doing is wrong and that you should stop.
Speaking of 30-day challenges, I'm going to break my bad habit of skipping exercise. For the next 30 days, I'm going to either lift or do some sort of cardio every single day, and I'll be posting a picture on Instagram each day with a progress update to prove it. If you want to join in, you can post your own pics with #cig30, or just comment on my pic and tell me if you stuck to your goal. My Instagram: instagram.com/tomfrankly/
To be fair he did talked about a lot of good information such as why we create bad habits, why they stick ( cue- routine- reward-craving) and gave an example from his expierence and such
I’m 19 and all my child hood friends do drugs and drink very regularly. This summer I’ve decided to distance myself and focus on the goals I had as a kid. I leave for A&M later this summer and I hope to reach my full potential. If I can do it so can anybody else. Good luck to anyone reading this.
I think that a better approach than the 30 day challenge is the one day challenge. "Today, I'm not going to (am going to) do X." It's a very simple and effective way to make a change. I started using it 4 months ago to stop going to McDonald's. Every time I see one, I remind myself that today I'm not going to McDonald's. it requires almost no willpower.
That backfired for me.... because I would really look forward to going the next day. What has helped me recently is vowing not to eat badly for a week/month, and then adding another week on top of it. I went three weeks without buying fast food, and now I can afford to get purple streaks in my hair, which is something I have wanted to do for a long time.
Stephanie Elizabeth yeah, then you dont want to loose all the hard the mental work you have been doing to keep free for 4 weeks so you take another week, and then another. And slowly your habits begin to fade. It becomes a habit not do something.
Yes yes but now I've reached a dilemma. Because I'd be bummed out when I lose my streak but I feel no need to start again because I'd lose my streaks constantly. That's my problem. Any vows to myself I don't take seriously and because I'm suicidal I don't really care about anything. Thomas and everyone else have just been saying to just do it. Nike was right. Sure. But I really don't want to and even though I really care, I don't change it. That's the question I'm looking for an answer to. We've stepped into a fractal.
Thank you for posting your old acne photo. Your skin looks so clear now and I'm encouraged! I'm 4 days in on a No Sugar challenge and I know I'm gonna love finally having clear skin! 🙌😁
End Drug Prohibition what you eat affects your skin because when you eat a lot of white sugar and other unhealthy foods, you eat less nutritious food. Enough protein, vitamins and antioxidants directly affect your skin but if all you're eating is sugary cereal and chocolate, you're not getting the nutrients your skin needs to be healthy. That's why diet DOES affect skin and and skin disorders. Although, you are correct in the sense that diet won't heal acne if it's hormonal. I also agree that having clear skin doesn't fix anyones problems unless it's painful pimples they're worried about.
Rememeber to wash your teeth and skin every day (showering), wash hands everytime you come back from outside or touched something unclean or what you suspect to be unclean (no need to panic)
Hey Thomas, could you make a video about learning something alone? For things we want to learn outside the scope of the college/school or when we have a bad professor
One thing here that wasn't addressed is the question what is habit compared to addiction? And if something that is a part of your life is missing, won't your productivity suffer? At least temporarily?
Great video! I've used all of these methods before actually, can confirm that they work. This past October I did sober October and it went so well that I've stayed sober through November as well. For November I gave up facebook and that's gone really well also. During those 30 days you can really dig deep inside yourself and figure out what caused the bad habits in the first place. I am still working on my sugar addiction. It's really hard during this time of year when it seems like everywhere you go, somebody is offering you a slice of cake, pie, or cookies. Sigh. All I can do is NOT keep sugary snacks in my own home and keep lots of healthy snacks on hand.
Alright, I'll add my 2 cents about my own experiences with bad habits: First and foremost, some habits just die out without you necessarily doing anything for it. I used to bite my nails for years and at some point it just started dying down to a point where I only rarely do it nowadays and if I do so, I go to the bathroom afterwards to fix it. I also realized that I only ever did it when I was bored so that is some information I could have used to combat that vice deliberately. Secondly, some habits can just become so annoying for you that you are sick of them just like that without needing willpower to quit. I used to browse a couple of 'funny' sides every day but got annoyed at this taking up so much time each day so one day I was just so pissed at this waste of time that I just stopped. The same happened with facebook, wasting so much time with pointless refreshing the feed also got me to just quit. Thirdly, you don't necessarily have to kill a habit, just modifying it can do the trick as well. Thomas already mentioned the cookie story which is similar to my habit in question, whereas analyzing why you perform those actions in the first place is the key. For me it was drinking Cappuccino....5-10 cups a day. I just love having something to drink, preferably something warm, at my desk almost all the time. Figuring that out, the fact that it's not the Cappuccino itself I was after but just having something ready to drink all the time allowed me to simply switch to tea where it doesn't matter when I drink that much, at least not with the teas I am drinking. Admittedly, between the switch was a vacation where I didn't have access to that habit in the first place which probably made the switch significantly easier that it would have been otherwise. I could even go so far and scrap the tea for simple water if I wanted to. In conclusion, finding out why you do something in the first place can be severely helpful.
Out of curiosity, primarily where did you develop your philosophy, and what pushed you to initially do so? I recently came across your channel and I think the information you're putting out is invaluable. But I'm just curious where you started.
For me personally, the best way to "break a bad habit" is to stop it from even becoming one in the first place. Any sort of habit is born gradually, just as you basically mentioned. It doesn't just appear out of nowhere. But obviously, we can't always stop something bad from becoming a habit. That's where we need to put in the work, which increases the more we allow the bad habit to take over. Nice video, by the way.
What if your habit became an obligation? Like something you NEED to do? I have a habit that I can't live throughout the day without doing. It's bad for me and it destroys my whole life. Sure I've tried all that's been talked about here but I didn't really do it all properly, I just half assed these tips but now I'll actually go and do them. Though just in case, any other tips?
I'm with you!! I only eat sugars through snacking, so I'll start with 30 days without (unhealthy) snacking, it's gonna be hard :/ hope my bf joins in Good luck!!
Thomas please Help me! I'm a fu***** idiot! I have my final Economy Test in 1 hour and i never studied it! I'm watching a TH-cam video!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Newer research and an emerging group of scientists believe addictions are actually habits or disorders of learning/dopamine reward systems rather than a disease that can't be "cured"
Learn how to build strong habits that actually stick - take my FREE habit-building course: collegeinfogeek.com/go/habit-course/ (this is an affiliate link, so using it also supports my channel 😀 )
I wanna become like you 🙏🏻💗
Lots of love from India Thomas
Damn my bad habit is watching productivity videos on TH-cam...
Craig Davison what the hell,mine too😂
Craig Davison there are much worse habits
Yeah same here but as said below there are worse habits but the time just flitters away so quickly. The time can be used to get out and do different things, meet people learn new things practically.
Same.
Lol 😂 😂
I'm on day 10 of a wholefoods plantbased diet. It's been so LONG since I'd been able to control my binge eating urges. Now sticking to this and feeling good. Can't believe it tbh. I've tried so much over the last year.
Congrats Brian! That's a huge achievement. I've gone through binge eating too and it's not easy to kick that bad habit.
what would the world be without people like you @ThomasFrank this video is so useful. THANK YOU!
I haven't drunk any sort of fizzy drink (especially coke) for three years. So proud of myself.
You always have the best cut aways to your sponsor. They make sense and don’t ruin the entirety of the video. Thank you
As always, thanks immensely for your videos. They are not only informative, but never fail to motivate me as well.
I read the book. It's a good read but he tells little on how to break the habits that too at the end of the book. But frank you got the golden nugget for what the book is actually telling us.
Probably the most amazing video on TH-cam!!!!!!! As a psychology student motivated by self-improvement, this very nicely and concisely puts together the principles and applications of behavioural analysis! Well done.
Thanks Thomas, I'll try to put it into practice.
Good video. I wasn’t even searching for my habit (also energy drinks and nail biting), but still found this video accidentally and it’s very helpful. Thanks a lot.
Excellent video. Thank you for breaking it down.
It is a great vid!
from my experiment, writing can be a good thing to keep you move on. Especially, if you imagine that you are writing a book.
you need to make a video on how to make a daily schedule and how to keep track of that schedule.
my bad habit is procrastination. I fix it by giving myself a "reward for doing it/consequence for not doing it" basically for example I can't go on my phone until I finish what I need to get done, something like that.
Dr.Chisum at Arizona State University is doing research on behavior change and goes in to great detail on these things. It is greatly recommended if you are looking for more stuff to research!
Thank you for your videos/podcasts the podcasts are the best to listen to in the car on the way to school.
To be honest I just became mostly productive now in my life because I've already failed so much already that I just had enough of it now and I just really wanna suceed. So for me the world pretty much fucked me up so bad that I was now determined to do everything I can in my power to suceed.
Rememeber to wash your teeth and skin every day (showering), wash hands everytime you come back from outside or touched something unclean or what you suspect to be unclean (no need to panic)
This has been the most relateable and most helpful of your videos so far for me, thank you, really thank you.
Here I am. I left crack. And still looking for videos to help me go back to exercise every day. Now. 6 months pregnant.
I can change my habits. I know. I've done it.
I'll make it :)
These videos feed on my youtube addiction...
I wanna Actually break my bad habit of binge eating and I wanna make a good habit of Exercising eating healthy foods ❤️
I gave up soda completely about 7 years ago, I don’t miss it at all
This channel is so underrated.
Loved that book. I actually read it with my ears a couple of years ago 😁
I'm actually looking into buying the physical copy, it was so good.
This is probably your best video ever. Thank you!
There is no tomorrow. Just internalize this simple warning. It will keep you doing things today.
What are you saying man.....the firdge loked beautiful it was so colourful..
Great vid as always. I sometimes think that your videos are gonna be repetitive and i learned already anything i needed, but thafs not the case
You always lay it out so clearly, Thank you
I love when you do summerize at the end!
My bad habit is staying up late. It is nearing 5 am and my bed time was about 6 hours ago.
6:41
*Thomas "Remove as much acses to that bad habit as you can!"
*Me "I have trouble with the habit of biting my nails... CUT OFF MY HAND!!!!"
Bye the way, Thank you so much, AWESOME video, really helped me!!!!!!!!!!😍😍
I am on a 1 year challenge of no Soda or carborated drinks, because I have been drinking way to much mountain dew and I need to stop. Especially that I am diabetic.
Mr Frank...
You're super cool. I wish I could've stumbled across your TH-cam channel, a bit earlier
Cue: Seeing Taco Bell on my > Routine: drive to my mother's which is always a > Reward: because I get three Double-Cheesy Beefy Potato Burritos that keeps the late, late night > cravings coming! While surfing the net, munching on deliciousness and wondering how I can break this nasty habit of mine I saw Mr. Thomas Frank's new video! just what I needed to hear! Thanks, dude :D!
I am new to your channel. This is my favorite video so far. Thank you!
I was biting my nails when you used that example
This is a great video. Thank you. I will try this method out.
It's similar to the book " the power of habit"
You look tired Thomas.
he need redbull
It's caffeine,actually
Bobbin you... you're the Devil!!!
pal lol I thought he is handsome, but oki
He doesn't look tired compared to the face in my mirror
I tried quiting these things cold turkey thinking it would be simple as just stopping. On the first day within 3 hours cold sweats clammy hands I felt like I was going to pass out this stuff is no good and I have an addiction to it how do I quit. I also believe this stuff shouldn't be sold anyone under the age of 18 and it should have a surgeon general's warning
Helpful video!
That's big!✊✊
I had been biting my nails since the last 15 years. A month ago I somehow managed to grow them to a good length but then got to it again! I really need help
I have tried everything but i do that thing again.....why?!
Does anyone have a replacement reward for being a TH-cam junkie? I'm all to addicted to scrolling TH-cam and wasting hours at a time 😖
The best way to break a bad habit is to replace it with something else. For example, I quit smoking cigarettes and started smoking crack cocaine. Now I never think about smoking cigarettes because all I want is crack.
Wonderful video I have shared my knowledge and wisdom I gained from this video and now I am seeing improvement within our dojo. Thank you! @Thomas Frank
Hi thomas thank you for making very interesting and useful videos with very well thought of content it really shows how much you have researched!
Hopefully u can see this comment or even other viewers can reply on how you can manage group projects as a leader
In high school and now uni i always end up being leader or sub leader that in the end acts as a leader the problem is it seems in the end as if i am doing half of the work, even though we have distributed the work, can u please share what exactly i am doing wrong or maybe some tips on how to manage this kind of issue ?
Thank you again 💪🏻❤️
i need to quit smoking, energy drinks, eating too many sweets and chocolate. i need to quit my depression, anxiety and quit being ugly
man I have the solution for you, send me a PM
thomas i made a list and i have been watching your videos i am autistic and special needs
Lol I just read this in the power of habit
Informative, insanely well crafted and helpful. Thank you.
I'm on my way to giving up cookies for good, btw.
nice info
I have been trying to quit weed for years, i was a fuckin monster of smoking weed everyday. What worked for me was listening to subliminal possitive affirmations of the person i wanted to be while i was asleep, and the craving just dissapeared
lmao if I did the 30-day challenge and had a friend moderate me with the money thing they would actively try to get me to break.
my main addiction is youtube.... spend way to much time here.
Pick and hour in the day where u allow ur self to be on TH-cam
Edit: an*
i just limit it to 30 min per day with focused timer and i disabled recommendations (y) works great
lol well then u clearly don't need *my* advice... like how is 30 minutes a day way too much time!? Anyway, i had no idea you could disable recommendations though. thanks for the tip
Rockie Smithson how can you disbanded recommendations?
DF tube
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I procrastinate watching his videos
And so do you
JoaoRaiden + Hahaha. So true
Nope, I watch his vids while eating :D
If you're doing this a lot, you'd only be in the shadow of your dreams forever.
+Warren Mingrajal That was so fucking deep that I might go ahead and actually do something productive
+Warren Mingrajal That was so deep that even if my name was Adele I wouldn't be able to roll in it
[Insert ironic joke about procrastinating while watching a video on how to stop procastination]
ERROR!!
*lamejoke.exe* not found
I gotchu my dude, read the top comment
rt tr this video isn't about procrastination but how to break a bad habbit
this is rather describing what happens on almost every Thomas Frank video
It's not a video about procrastination.
So far I've quit:
Soda
Porn
Video Games
Drinking
Next:
Weed
Excessive phone use
@@rajishkhatri9639 write down why you are doing it e.g all the negative consequences
@@rajishkhatri9639 each time you fail find your trigger e.g. boredom,home alone
@@pro-ballers5559 Thanks bro! I'll give it a go and see what happens.🙏
@@rajishkhatri9639 Try too go to SAA meetings, it should help
@@rajishkhatri9639 Yeah basically what Pro-Ballers said: just describe in detail what you are literally doing in the moment when you are watch it.
"Ok so I am watching some random a** people I've never met nor seen in real life have sex"
That should make you realize that what you are doing is wrong and that you should stop.
Thomas: I actually have a pretty bad habit
Me: Oh wow he's not a perfect robot
Thomas: of looking at analytics on TH-cam
Me: Jesus Christ
Lol
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Speaking of 30-day challenges, I'm going to break my bad habit of skipping exercise. For the next 30 days, I'm going to either lift or do some sort of cardio every single day, and I'll be posting a picture on Instagram each day with a progress update to prove it. If you want to join in, you can post your own pics with #cig30, or just comment on my pic and tell me if you stuck to your goal.
My Instagram: instagram.com/tomfrankly/
Let's see man!
Thomas Frank Good luck
Thomas Frank nice work man!!
Thomas Frank I have a bad habit of cracking many joints in my body. Any help on how to break this habit would be much appreciated. Thanks
Thomas Frank, did That with small excercises, 6-7 minutes. Look at @athlean-X on YT
Break your bad habit more quickly by moving to 8:40
Thanks alot, mine was basically procrastination 😂😭😭😭
They are trying so hard to get watchtime, but you can't blame them because that's what the Yt algorithm promotes!
Tyyy
To be fair he did talked about a lot of good information such as why we create bad habits, why they stick ( cue- routine- reward-craving) and gave an example from his expierence and such
That's just silly.
I’m 19 and all my child hood friends do drugs and drink very regularly. This summer I’ve decided to distance myself and focus on the goals I had as a kid. I leave for A&M later this summer and I hope to reach my full potential. If I can do it so can anybody else. Good luck to anyone reading this.
I don't know you but I'm proud of you and I hope your accomplishing your goals! Gig 'em Aggies 👍
Vikings123456789 still have a good amount of free time at 19?
Good job 👏 👍 👌
hey how'd it go?
I hope you were successful
You look even better than the photoshopped photo of you! :)
I think that a better approach than the 30 day challenge is the one day challenge. "Today, I'm not going to (am going to) do X." It's a very simple and effective way to make a change. I started using it 4 months ago to stop going to McDonald's. Every time I see one, I remind myself that today I'm not going to McDonald's. it requires almost no willpower.
+Christopher Tilley good point - one day at a time ;)
That backfired for me.... because I would really look forward to going the next day. What has helped me recently is vowing not to eat badly for a week/month, and then adding another week on top of it. I went three weeks without buying fast food, and now I can afford to get purple streaks in my hair, which is something I have wanted to do for a long time.
Very good
Stephanie Elizabeth yeah, then you dont want to loose all the hard the mental work you have been doing to keep free for 4 weeks so you take another week, and then another. And slowly your habits begin to fade. It becomes a habit not do something.
Yes yes but now I've reached a dilemma. Because I'd be bummed out when I lose my streak but I feel no need to start again because I'd lose my streaks constantly. That's my problem. Any vows to myself I don't take seriously and because I'm suicidal I don't really care about anything. Thomas and everyone else have just been saying to just do it. Nike was right. Sure. But I really don't want to and even though I really care, I don't change it. That's the question I'm looking for an answer to. We've stepped into a fractal.
..."compulsively biting your nails..."
*Stopped biting my nails*
anyone know a good replacement for spending all day on youtube?
erukai learn an instrument
Me :3 the problem is i already play a shit ton of guitar which most of the time i do while watching yt
Learn new language?
I have learnt a new instrument (guitar), a new language (Italian) and I am still addicted to TH-cam
umm, hey look i have an answer here that i kinda give for a lot of questions actually..Run!
Thank you for posting your old acne photo. Your skin looks so clear now and I'm encouraged! I'm 4 days in on a No Sugar challenge and I know I'm gonna love finally having clear skin! 🙌😁
Keep at it! :)
you can do it!!! 💪💪👑
Priskit u go girl xd
End Drug Prohibition what you eat affects your skin because when you eat a lot of white sugar and other unhealthy foods, you eat less nutritious food. Enough protein, vitamins and antioxidants directly affect your skin but if all you're eating is sugary cereal and chocolate, you're not getting the nutrients your skin needs to be healthy. That's why diet DOES affect skin and and skin disorders. Although, you are correct in the sense that diet won't heal acne if it's hormonal. I also agree that having clear skin doesn't fix anyones problems unless it's painful pimples they're worried about.
Rememeber to wash your teeth and skin every day (showering), wash hands everytime you come back from outside or touched something unclean or what you suspect to be unclean (no need to panic)
WONDERFUL video, Thomas!! I think this is one of my favorites. This is so well structured and useful!
So helpful to watch at the beginning of 2021 ✨
i started watching an 11:11 min video at 11:11pm lol..i just thought id share...
who cares? i know.
I care :)
me too
Hey Thomas, could you make a video about learning something alone? For things we want to learn outside the scope of the college/school or when we have a bad professor
_"Figure it out yourself"_ And like that, three-quarters of TH-cam vanished instantaneously.
That's a good idea. Here's an article I wrote on it a while ago: collegeinfogeek.com/self-study/
Coursera, edx and khan academy could help you. This topic does deserve a video.
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when you procrastinate your procrastination joke
"Do not Falcon Punch random people for 30 days"
That made me laugh way too hard. XD
Sodie pops - papa bless
Ethan, the genius.
thomas, great moves, keep it up, proud of you
I had to pause the video and mourn when he said "When my GIRLFRIEND"
Same. He needs to be cloned.
Oh I thought u meant his gf dumped him until I saw the second comment 😂
Mallows awww its okaaay
Same...He's gorgeous AND his eyes are hypnotizing (so beautiful)
@@xstephnz he should put cloning on his "impossible list" 😂
One thing here that wasn't addressed is the question what is habit compared to addiction? And if something that is a part of your life is missing, won't your productivity suffer? At least temporarily?
Woa you look better than your goal.....
I'm going to quit redbull thanks to this video, wish me luck
Foreignspy good luck 😊
Ha! I'm sure you r still addicted to RB as fuck
David Novosardian What happened?
The glo up is real
I'm a simple man. I see a Thomas Frank video, I watch it, and I like it.
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Actually lol'd at "Falcon Punched a Rando?"
Great timing on the this! I just finished The Power of Habit!
Wow. Me too! O.o
I was about to read it lol
I am watching it Jan 1, 21... looks like any day is a good day as we are always working on improving something 🤗
Great video! I've used all of these methods before actually, can confirm that they work. This past October I did sober October and it went so well that I've stayed sober through November as well. For November I gave up facebook and that's gone really well also. During those 30 days you can really dig deep inside yourself and figure out what caused the bad habits in the first place. I am still working on my sugar addiction. It's really hard during this time of year when it seems like everywhere you go, somebody is offering you a slice of cake, pie, or cookies. Sigh. All I can do is NOT keep sugary snacks in my own home and keep lots of healthy snacks on hand.
Alright, I'll add my 2 cents about my own experiences with bad habits:
First and foremost, some habits just die out without you necessarily doing anything for it. I used to bite my nails for years and at some point it just started dying down to a point where I only rarely do it nowadays and if I do so, I go to the bathroom afterwards to fix it. I also realized that I only ever did it when I was bored so that is some information I could have used to combat that vice deliberately.
Secondly, some habits can just become so annoying for you that you are sick of them just like that without needing willpower to quit. I used to browse a couple of 'funny' sides every day but got annoyed at this taking up so much time each day so one day I was just so pissed at this waste of time that I just stopped. The same happened with facebook, wasting so much time with pointless refreshing the feed also got me to just quit.
Thirdly, you don't necessarily have to kill a habit, just modifying it can do the trick as well. Thomas already mentioned the cookie story which is similar to my habit in question, whereas analyzing why you perform those actions in the first place is the key. For me it was drinking Cappuccino....5-10 cups a day. I just love having something to drink, preferably something warm, at my desk almost all the time. Figuring that out, the fact that it's not the Cappuccino itself I was after but just having something ready to drink all the time allowed me to simply switch to tea where it doesn't matter when I drink that much, at least not with the teas I am drinking. Admittedly, between the switch was a vacation where I didn't have access to that habit in the first place which probably made the switch significantly easier that it would have been otherwise. I could even go so far and scrap the tea for simple water if I wanted to. In conclusion, finding out why you do something in the first place can be severely helpful.
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." Love this quote and love your videos! Thanks Thomas!
This video is the best. Changed my life.
Out of curiosity, primarily where did you develop your philosophy, and what pushed you to initially do so? I recently came across your channel and I think the information you're putting out is invaluable. But I'm just curious where you started.
I rub/pick my eyebrows without realising... now I have bald patches in my eyebrows. *help*.
My bad (good?) habit is binge watching this channel several videos at a time.
Great, keep going ♥️
This video is really helpful, thanks Thomas!
You're welcome :)
These strategies are actually practical.
Thanks for sharing it.
It's ironic because I'm procrastinating reading The Odyssey by watching this video haha
Btw I can relate to the analytics habit
For me personally, the best way to "break a bad habit" is to stop it from even becoming one in the first place. Any sort of habit is born gradually, just as you basically mentioned. It doesn't just appear out of nowhere. But obviously, we can't always stop something bad from becoming a habit. That's where we need to put in the work, which increases the more we allow the bad habit to take over. Nice video, by the way.
What if your habit became an obligation? Like something you NEED to do? I have a habit that I can't live throughout the day without doing. It's bad for me and it destroys my whole life. Sure I've tried all that's been talked about here but I didn't really do it all properly, I just half assed these tips but now I'll actually go and do them. Though just in case, any other tips?
i hope this will help me to cut artificial sugars. it would make my fight against cancer easier.
Good luck. Stay strong. Eat and drink right, exercise when you can, and sleep well. Hope you make it 😀
I'm with you!! I only eat sugars through snacking, so I'll start with 30 days without (unhealthy) snacking, it's gonna be hard :/ hope my bf joins in
Good luck!!
Hope you did cut out meat products too, especially stuff as sausages, those feed cancer a lot. Milk too. Hope youre doing well
Thomas please Help me! I'm a fu***** idiot! I have my final Economy Test in 1 hour and i never studied it! I'm watching a TH-cam video!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Yassir Rossel damn...good luck dude...
yassir Rossel me too!
f*** economics
I love it tho
More like an addiction than a habit (there is a dopamine addiction) but people would get offended by that word if it's not a diagnosed disease. Sigh
just take modafinil
Newer research and an emerging group of scientists believe addictions are actually habits or disorders of learning/dopamine reward systems rather than a disease that can't be "cured"