
Habits
The Will to Persist
Twenty-one short lessons on what actually makes people keep going — and on the two famous answers that got smaller the moment anyone tested them properly.
21 lessons · Catalogue preview
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Seven days on how habits actually form, and the small moves that make a new one stick where willpower has not.

Inside this path
Learn to choose a small action, find a practical cue and adjust the plan when life interrupts it. Seven lessons draw on Duhigg, Fogg and Clear to explain habitual behaviour and give you a manageable experiment of your own.
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Where the path begins · Lesson 01
Look at the decisions and practical conditions hidden inside an ordinary plan, then choose one condition to improve.
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Look at the decisions and practical conditions hidden inside an ordinary plan, then choose one condition to improve.
Observe what comes before and after a familiar action, and distinguish what happened from your explanation of it.
Choose a manageable first action that addresses the actual difficulty and still serves a worthwhile purpose.
Match a small action with an occasion that supplies the right timing, setting and practical opportunity.
Examine the experience of an action and make useful adjustments without demanding pleasure or enthusiasm on every occasion.
Respond to a missed attempt by choosing a feasible return, a practical revision or an appropriate pause.
Combine the course's practical checks to decide which routine to keep, adjust or leave behind.
Bring your own curiosity
A subject, a situation or a question. Shape a sequence of lessons around what you want to understand.
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