∇ Gradient Descent on Nostr: You seem to be in the same mode of renovating your routines and probing habits with ...
You seem to be in the same mode of renovating your routines and probing habits with conciousnes.
Not sure, if I would call habits "natural". What is that, anyways? Is a nuclear power plant natural? It's easy to argue for either side.. Habits are a function of the brain, a subroutine implemented to reduce energy consumption and accelerate execution. They do satisfy an urge, but that urge can be pure fiction of the brain and the reward as well. There's usually a trigger, that causes the execution of the habit - and finally some reward. First step is to put conciousnes on the habit (e.g. random looks at phone screen) to make it visible, then analyze what triggers it and what's the reward (dopamin? Superficial feeling of ingesting information ?). It's very hard to suppress execution of an old habit -modification is easier. You can overwrite the habit by inventing a new one for the same trigger.
I did that for stopping smoking - when I felt theburge, I took some deep breaths instead of a cigarette. That felt refreshing (reward) and helped overwriteling the habit with a new routine and a new reward.
Rewriting is highly concious. Once written, it falls back to automatic execution - a new habit.
Does that male sense to you?
Not sure, if I would call habits "natural". What is that, anyways? Is a nuclear power plant natural? It's easy to argue for either side.. Habits are a function of the brain, a subroutine implemented to reduce energy consumption and accelerate execution. They do satisfy an urge, but that urge can be pure fiction of the brain and the reward as well. There's usually a trigger, that causes the execution of the habit - and finally some reward. First step is to put conciousnes on the habit (e.g. random looks at phone screen) to make it visible, then analyze what triggers it and what's the reward (dopamin? Superficial feeling of ingesting information ?). It's very hard to suppress execution of an old habit -modification is easier. You can overwrite the habit by inventing a new one for the same trigger.
I did that for stopping smoking - when I felt theburge, I took some deep breaths instead of a cigarette. That felt refreshing (reward) and helped overwriteling the habit with a new routine and a new reward.
Rewriting is highly concious. Once written, it falls back to automatic execution - a new habit.
Does that male sense to you?