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Break the Habits Holding You Back

Stop fighting a bad habit with willpower and lose. Map the loop behind it, make it harder, remove what triggers it, and swap in a routine that pays off the same way — so the habit is engineered out of your day for good.

7 lessons28 min

About this course

The habit you keep trying to quit isn't a willpower problem. It runs on a loop, and once you can see the loop you can break it.

Most attempts to drop a bad habit fail because they attack the visible behavior and leave the machinery underneath untouched. The cue still fires, the craving still builds, and one stressful evening pulls you straight back. This course works the mechanism instead: you map the cue, routine, and reward driving the habit, then change it from several angles at once.

You learn to add friction so the habit is harder to act on, remove the triggers that set it off, and replace the routine rather than trying to erase it through sheer restraint. Then you handle the hard part most programs skip: riding out a craving without acting, and recovering from a lapse before it becomes a relapse. The course closes on identity, shifting you toward becoming someone who simply doesn't do the thing, so the change holds when motivation fades.

Who it's for

Repeat quitters: you have broken the same habit a dozen times and want a method that survives a bad day.

Builders of new routines: you want to understand the cue-routine-reward loop well enough to redesign your own behavior on purpose.

The self-critical: you blame your discipline for every lapse and need a system that treats slips as data, not failure.

Course Curriculum

1Why Bad Habits Won't Just Stop2Find the Loop3Make It Harder4Remove the Trigger5Replace, Don't Erase6Ride the Craving, Survive the Lapse7Become Someone Who Doesn't

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What you'll learn

  • Why Bad Habits Won't Just Stop
  • Find the Loop
  • Make It Harder
  • Remove the Trigger
  • Replace, Don't Erase
Ride the Craving, Survive the Lapse
  • Become Someone Who Doesn't