Charles Duhigg's The Power Of Habit Loop

You wake up at six a.m., grab a cup of coffee, watch the news, eat breakfast, then brush your teeth. You find yourself doing the same routine every day. Do you ever wonder why? The answer is simple, your behavior and your actions at the start of each day have become a habit. A habit is the product of the habit loop. What is the habit loop you ask? The habit loop consists of three elements: a cue or a trigger, a routine, and a reward. You use the habit loop every day and you don’t even notice. To elaborate in greater detail, take a look at this quote by Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit, “This process within our brains is a three-step loop. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use. Then
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Just like Charles Duhigg says, “This explains why habits are so powerful: They create neurological cravings. Most of the time, these cravings emerge so gradually that we’re not really aware they exist, so we’re often blind to their influence. But as we associate cues with certain rewards, a subconscious craving emerges in our brains that starts the habit loop

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My life too has a habit loop. More than one of course, but here is an example of how the habit loop applies to my life. I hear my alarm clock roar as I jump up to get my day started. I grab a boiling hot cup of coffee and a light breakfast. After I eat, I take a semi cold shower and brush my teeth. With my clothes already laid out, I finish getting ready and I go to school or work. When I get home, I do all of my homework and go to bed. At the end of each day, I feel accomplished of everything that I have done. This is my habit loop every day. My cue is my alarm clock going off and my routine is everything I do throughout the day. At the end of the day, I receive my reward and that is the feeling of