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Lower your expectations and succeed with 'Tiny Habits'

NPR's Book of the Day

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The Tiny Habits Method

So in the tiny habits method, we have these three hacks coming together. You take any new habit you want and you scale it back so it's super tiny. In the case of reading more, it might be read one paragraph. Then to wirein the habit, this is part three, you fire off a psitive emotion. That technique is called celebration. For a lot of people, doing a fist pump and saying, awesome Works for other people in their heads, they might think of a happy song. Other people sound effects, like, do do to do. Like, good for me for doing it.

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