![]() ![]() It's why organizations can so rarely change themselves. They stop learning without realizing that they have stopped learning. They learn their way around the maze to find the chocolate and then stop learning. Individual humans do their learning when facing new experiences for the first time. It appears that everything in between doesn't really require active thought or learning. After time, brain activity was only high at the beginning and end of the maze. It was found that at first brain activity was high throughout the whole maze as the rats brain learned the way to the chocolate. Her experiments involved rats finding chocolate in a maze. But work by Anne Graybiel at MIT has demonstrated how neural patterns are shaped in the basal ganglia that influences habits and actions. The truth is that different habits take different time and effort to change. He concluded that neuro-connections develop if action is repeated or 21 days without missing a day. He also noticed that self-image problems could be solved in a 21 day program. How long to change a habit? Dr Maltz noticed in the 1960s that it took about three weeks for amputee patients to stop feeling a phantom limb. With the habit becoming the pattern of changing your clothing to accomplish the goal of feeling great or fitting in. ![]() Others become habitual only for a season or two or three since they belong to habits that are deliberately manipulated. All become habitual for a certain generation and may keep influencing their sense of what is 'normal' for the rest of their lives. Flares, baggies, hipsters and skinny jeans. In part this is because we compare ourselves consciously, but it's far more because we take subconscious cues about the value, acceptability and availability of certain actions. Your friend's friend's friend affects everything, including body weight, car and age you're going to die. The habits of others influence our habits in a chain of subtle influences. Anything from how they dress, to phrases and clichés, to whether they do just enough or whatever it takes to do a great job for a customer, for each other, or for your own satisfaction. Learned sequences of behaviour between members of the same group. Or that offends their sense of morality which is also habitual - an automatic pattern of judgments about other people's behaviour. ![]() Or someone sticks a bad habit label on behaviour that gets in the way of what they want. The bad habit might get in the way of what you want. Some patterns of behaviours are labeled good and bad. Instead of mirror, indicator and accelerate, you might simply accelerate, nearly hit another car, curse at the other driver and continue along believing you were right all the time. The problem is that bad driving also becomes automatic. ![]() Repeated behaviour conditions your brain to turn left and right without really thinking. You may have had the experience of setting off to go to a new place and finding yourself driving to somewhere you are used to going to. Without traditions life becomes shaky - unbearably uncertain.ĭriving becomes automatic. Without habits you're constantly struggling to find an appropriate response to every situation no matter how many times you've experienced it. Riding a bicycle, opening a door, saying hello - all done without bothering our minds with the details. We don't have the brain power to think about everything we do, so we need shortcuts. The useful thing about habits is they are efficient. Some habits are even passed on genetically with our minds acting in fright, flight, spite or delight because of some unknown series of events before you were even born. Some habits don't appear to achieve anything at all. How much of what you do each day is the result of habit? Learned sequences of acts that become automatic. Later waves, however, follow this path, and flow downwards in a seemingly effortless fashion: a habit has been born." The first wave seems undecided, constructing a winding path to ground level. Pour some water on the top of the pile, and watch how it finds its way down. "Imagine a warm summer day at the beach, a pile of sand, and a bucket of sea water. ![]()
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