{"id":5200,"date":"2021-06-24T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"power-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"POWER OF HABIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have started to reread Charles Duhigg&#8217;s <i><b>The Power of Habit<\/b><\/i>. It&#8217;s a fascinating book and so incredibly relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here&#8217;s what I mean by relevant: &#8220;One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren&#8217;t actual decisions, but habits.&#8221; (xvi)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let that sink in: almost half of what the average person does during any given day is simply acting out habits, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I write this, it is nearly midnight, I am hopped up on Nyquil, and my head hurts. But I have created a habit since the start of 2021 of writing something for this blog each day. And now it has become almost automatic. Since the first month, I don&#8217;t even find myself ever slipping into bed having forgotten to write.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It just happens now. Every day. No matter how I feel or what else is going on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need to put serious thought into creating other positive habits!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210623_234942-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1075\" height=\"1433\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have started to reread Charles Duhigg&#8217;s The Power of Habit. It&#8217;s a fascinating book and so incredibly relevant. And here&#8217;s what I mean by relevant: &#8220;One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren&#8217;t actual decisions, but habits.&#8221; (xvi) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}