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#470: A Proven System for Building and Breaking Habits

The Art of Manliness

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The Importance of Identity-Based Habits in Habits and Behavior Change

There's two approaches to habits and behavior change. There's outcome-based habits and then there's identity-based habits. So for example, you might say, all right, I want to lose 40 pounds in six months. Then the question would be, well, who is the kind of person that could lose weight? And then you realize, well, maybe it's the identity of you know, I don't miss workouts. You just focus on building habits that reinforce that identity.

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