In this psyblog article i read, a group of scientists were studying how long it took to form a habit. They talked about the 21 day assumption and that thats how long it generally took. That idea was wrong however from the start from what they found from their study. They took a number of different people who wanted to form a habit, and those habits ranged from drinking a glass of water in the morning to running 15 minutes everyday. They found that the longer a person performed this habit to be, the more of a habit it became. It seemed like a no brainer to me, but then it said it varied on the person's personality and the difficulty of the habit to be. In other words, drinking a glass of water is a easier habit to form than running 15 minutes every day.
I thought that this article was very interesting. It caught my eye right away, and im sure it did for others as well. Personally I thought it was a bummer that they didn't discover a definant number of days for it to become a habit, but at least they found that most of the time it took 66 days. It must have been a hard experiment to study too, these pple must be getting paid alot, or have nothing else to do.
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Omg, i think habits are like the coolest thing. When they are good ones that is. I bite my nails all the time, and i stopped for a while, but its just like routine. So irritating. This artical should have told you how to break a habit! Sure, we all know how long it takes to start one, just how do you get rid of it?!?!
ReplyDeleteI thought it took less time to start a habit... it probably takes like ten times as long to break one though. I'm totaly disapointed in not finding out how long it would actually take to create a habbit too, that's why i clicked on this one. I personaly would rather start a habit of drinking water than running.
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