New Habits Can Easily Be Forgotten

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🗃 Resources:: Hooked (2014)
2024-11-12 - 17:29

New behaviors have a short half-life, as our minds tend to revert to our old ways of thinking and doing.

Experiments show that lab animals habituated to new behaviors tend to regress to their first learned behaviors over time.

To borrow a term from accounting, behaviors are LIFO — “last in, first out.” In other words, the habits you’ve most recently acquired are also the ones most likely to go soonest.