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Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
The process of building a habit can be divided into four simple steps: cue, craving, response, and reward.*
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Building for Triggers
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
James Clear • 30 One-Sentence Stories From People Who Have Built Better Habits
What does someone do right before the outcome occurs? What’s unique about the company? What user actions are easier to facilitate because of those unique aspects of the company (specialized skills, a special relationship with the users, etc.)? What do users already do that’s similar? Why aren’t people making the outcome happen? Why would users want
... See moreStephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics

“Self-efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change.”
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
BJ Fogg’s mantra for effective website design is: put “hot triggers” in the path of motivated people. Don’t try to artificially create motivation, but instead tap an existing motivation people already have.