%% date:: [[2021-08-26]], [[2024-01-01]] %% # [[Forming Habits]] Understanding how habits begin is a powerful tool in increasing your [[Productivity]] by creating new habits or by learning to break existing ones. ## Ways to start a habit - Identifying and removing triggers - Making being "indistractable" part of your identity: _You are a person that is capable of extreme focus. You're not a person that checks your mobile consistently._ - [[Accountability|Being accountable]] to yourself and to others for _not_ being distracted. - Making it require significant effort to become distracted. - [[Make the question of willpower moot by changing your environment to remove inertia.]] [^clear]: Clear, J. (2018). _Atomic habits_. Random House. [[Atomic Habits]]