How Much of Your Day Is Subjected to Habit?

How much of our day is subject to habit? How important are they? That was one of the first things I looked at in my research on habits. And it's kind of hard to estimate because you can't ask people. So we beeped them once an hour for two days and asked, what are you doing right now? And then how often have you done this in the past? Our estimate is 43% of the time, people are repeating behaviors that they've done in the same context,. in the past, without thinking about what they're doing.