Habit Hacking: Breaking, Building, and Transforming Your Habits
By Dean Yeong
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It comes as no surprise that this is the ultimate truth for anyone who has ever achieved excellence in life. It’s not about talent or luck; rather, it’s repeated action with consistency that counts. And that’s the power of habit.
On average, the human brain makes up just 4 percent of the mass of the whole body, but it consumes 20 percent of our total energy to function optimally. That’s how much our brain is working to allow us to live a normal life. But for it to work efficiently, our brain actually ignores almost 80 percent of the information it collects by putting it into autopilot, due to our limited energy and limited ability to make decisions consistently.
Without the mechanism for forming habits, we would probably not even exist. We’d never be able to remember a thing, never be able to learn a thing, and never be able to even think.
Having thought of this, I’d estimate 90 percent of our daily activities are our habits. I believe this applies to you too. With that said, any result you obtained today, whether it’s good or bad, is the collective product of your habits in the past. Likewise, every result you desire for the future depends on the habits you have and cultivate at this moment. Turning this around, your current bad habits will eventually destroy you in the future.
It’s clear that mastering our habits will do way more good to us as creatives and entrepreneurs. To be a better version of ourselves, it’s crucial to break and reduce destructive habits and cultivate good, lasting habits. In this article, you will learn the scientific formula behind habit formation, how to break a bad habit and replace it with a good one, and finally, how to make good habits stick.
Dean Yeong
I study successful people with wide range of background and discipline from top performing athletes to successful entrepreneurs. Then, I share these research-based ideas and techniques about behavioral psychology and performance improvement on my personal website DeanYeong.com Being a creative and an entrepreneur myself, I acknowledge that the ability to making better decisions, cultivating good habits, and maintaining great health are crucial to our work and life. That’s when I started to dive deeper into these topics to uncover what makes successful people and top performers achieve what they have achieved. However, I don’t just write about things. Along the way, I like to try out the concepts myself as the experiment to build better habits and rituals to achieve what matters the most to me. And that indirectly shape my personal website, it’s one part of research-based facts and findings, one part storytelling, and one part personal thoughts and experience. A small selection of my ideas and words are being featured on Elite Daily, Inc, The Huffington Post, Thought Catalog and other publications.
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Habit Hacking - Dean Yeong
Dean Yeong
Habit Hacking
Breaking, Building, and Transforming Your Habits
First published by Dean Yeong in 2016
Copyright © Dean Yeong, 2017
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ISBN: 9781370587179
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Contents
Dedication
Introduction
How is a Habit Formed?
Breaking & Building
Achieve Lasting Change
Final Thoughts
Acknowledgment
About the Author
Dedication
I like to dedicate this book to my future self. You are the results of your collective past, and what you do repeatedly now will become your future.
Besides, I like to dedicate this book to you who is reading and seeking for lasting change, not just in results, but in yourself.
This guidebook is free and not for sale. Feel free to share it with anyone who may need it. To read it online, visit DeanYeong.com
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Introduction
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, is not an act, but a habit – Aristotle
This is a powerful quote by one of the greatest Greek philosophers and scientists. It comes as no surprise that this is the ultimate truth for anyone who has ever achieved excellence in life. It’s not about talent or luck; rather, it’s repeated action with consistency