THE HABITS

What is a habit?

In the health sciences, particularly the behavioral sciences (psychology), any regularly repeated behavior is called a habit.

Some habits (e.g., constantly matching a shoelace) may waste important mental processes that could be put to good use in more demanding tasks, but others foster prejudice or are harmful.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines habits as that in view of which we behave well or badly with respect to the passions. Habit predisposes a subject to the perfect performance of a task or activity. To the extent that nature also predisposes a subject (since it gives him inclinations), tradition speaks of habits as second natures.

Laws of habit      👀☝

The first act will be all the better reproduced the more times it has affected the consciousness.

Repetition favors reproduction and makes it habitual.

Habitual repetition decreases the effort of reproduction.

The frequency of reproduction gradually decreases the duration required for reproduction.

Habitual repetition tends to make the reproduction progressively less conscious.

Repetition attenuates the affective tonality of the states reproduced.

How are habits formed?

No one is born with them, they are acquired, they do not happen without being caused. Each person is used to mold continuously his way of being and acting, according to the influences he receives from the environment that surrounds him; at home, at school, at work, with friends, with all this we build our identity, lifestyle, and thus we build our system of beliefs and values, which defines the attitude we will have to life and the role we will occupy in society, which will be present in every situation or activity and can be modified by the demands of the environment.

Examples of habits

There are many possible habits, and to take note of them we only need to observe our daily routine. Obviously, what is a habit for us is not a habit for others, depending on whether it is part of an installed routine. For example:

- It is a habit to go to the bathroom before going to sleep.

- It is a habit to brush your teeth when you get up, as much as it is to go to the kitchen and heat water to make coffee.

- It is a habit to have breakfast at the coffee shop next to work.

- It is a habit to greet office colleagues when they arrive.

- It's a habit to smoke a cigarette after lunch.

NAME: KEVIN CASTILLO

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