{"id":12363,"date":"2020-09-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2020-12-30T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:24:53","slug":"habit-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/habit-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Limits of Building Better Habits?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first set of articles I wrote that got my blog some attention were a series called Habitual Mastery<\/a>. At the time I had spent a couple years extensively working on my habits through thirty-day trials. The series was an attempt to condense my observations into usable advice.<\/p>\n

For someone who has never put serious effort into building new habits, the concept can be life-changing. A lot of writers who talk about self-improvement start with habits. A reason for this seems to be that once you get into the habit of making habits, it can seem so transformational that you just have to start writing about it.<\/p>\n

Thus, it\u2019s fair to say I\u2019m an advocate for habit-building as a tool.<\/p>\n

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Yet, I think it\u2019s the very power of a tool like habit-building that can also create some overreach. Some of the things I thought I could do with enough conditioning or training failed to materialize. In other circumstances, habits are simply the wrong way of thinking for making progress on some goals.<\/p>\n

In this article, I\u2019d like to explore what I see as some of the limitations to an otherwise beneficial practice.<\/p>\n

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