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How Long Does It Take for a New Behavior to Become Automatic?

By Scott Frothingham — 2019

According to a 2009 study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, it takes 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit. The study also concluded that, on average, it takes 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.

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Habits: The Strategy of the Four Tendencies

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Gretchen Rubin
2015
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Gretchen Rubin: The 4 Ways to Successfully Adopt New Habits

When someone (even yourself) gives you a rule to follow what do you do? Are you a Rebel, refusing to follow all directives? Or are you more of an Obliger who will respond to outer rules, but so much to inner rules? In this 99U talk, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin shares the four personality...

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Gretchen Rubin
2014
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Better than Before

Habits are the invisible architecture of our lives. Rubin provides an analytical and scientific framework from which to understand these habits—as well as change them for good.

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Gretchen Rubin
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Habit Formation