If you're struggling with a bad habit, what I would strongly recommend is that you engage in the habit with awareness. Just notice, like look at it and say like, Oh, wow, like I really want to use this phone right now. So let me use it. It's okay. Or if you're trying to eat something, pause for a second and be like, okay, I really wantTo eat this. Let's see how it tastes. As you do that over and over and over again, you will be strengthening this connection between your frontal lobe and your habit circuitry. And then you will discover this tipping point, which is exactly what happened to me when I went to
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