Sublime

Many people begin the process of changing their habits by focusing on what they want to achieve. This leads us to outcome-based habits. The alternative is to build identity-based habits. With this approach, we start by focusing on who we wish to become.

As you know, motivation and willpower get a lot of airtime. People are always looking for ways to ramp them up and sustain them over time. The problem is that both motivation and willpower are shape-shifters by nature, which makes them unreliable.

(behavior = motivation + ability + trigger).

A designer’s belief about the behavioral influence of spaces on users is foundational to the designed outcomes of a space.

A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.

Remember, for a behavior (B) to occur, three elements must converge at the same moment: Motivation, Ability, and Prompt. It’s a model that has profound implications. Each person’s motivation, ability, and prompt will be different in any given situation.

Hall divided personal space into close personal space—think elbowroom—and far personal space—within arm’s reach.

There are several frameworks for intentional habit formation. In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg describes the “cue-routine-reward” cycle. James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, prefers “cue-craving-response-reward.”