{"id":6362,"date":"2021-09-28T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"key-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"KEY DIFFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Something James Clear, author of <i>Atomic Habits,<\/i> pointed out on a podcast&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every habit has a cost and reward associated with it. A key difference between good habits and bad habits is the order in which the related cost and reward occur.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bad habit tends to feature an immediate reward, followed later (sometimes MUCH later) by the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eat a bowl of ice cream tonight and the reward is immediate: smooth, creamy satisfying goodness. Eat that bowl of ice cream every night for five years and you have quite a few extra pounds and possibly some related health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, good habits often bring the cost first and the reward follows behind.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make yourself go to the gym after work and it costs you time and energy. But if it becomes a habit, the reward comes in time in the form of strength and good health.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notice this too: the rewards of bad habits are shallow, temporary feelings. The rewards of good habits are deep benefits that last a lifetime.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Something James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, pointed out on a podcast&#8230;) Every habit has a cost and reward associated with it. A key difference between good habits and bad habits is the order in which the related cost and reward occur.\u00a0 A bad habit tends to feature an immediate reward, followed later (sometimes MUCH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","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=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}