4 Q's - Unnatural Habits

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Quintessential Thought

Habits are shortcuts are brains take to deal with vast amounts of information. They help simplify the complexity around us. This can either be beneficial or detrimental. If our habits are producing good things, excellent! If they are not, it’s time to do a habit check-up.

Our brains are not naturally geared towards difficult evaluation, such as “what are my goals?” “How did that last thing I did work out?” By using frameworks or tools, such as Scrum, we can start to build new habit formation to have more difficult conversations, resulting in us forming new unnatural habits. 

Quotes

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. - Jerome Hines

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. - Steven Pressfield

Don’t live life by default - Steven Redhead

Quick Step

Think of an important question you forget to ask yourself, like “what problem am I trying to solve?” Write it on a post-it note and keep it somewhere you an see it frequently. Your brain will start to process it and ask it more frequently.

Question

What questions do you struggle to ask? How can you make them easier to ask, more obvious to ask, more attractive to ask, and more satisfying to ask?

Check out James Clear and Atomic Habits for more on those 4 steps.

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