Bad Habits: Why Are They Difficult To Break?

There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstandings surrounding habits. As such, I was happy to get an e-mail recently from friend and fellow self development blogger Vlad Dolezal that gives me the opportunity to revisit the topic. I’m going to reproduce Vlad’s e-mail and for the sake of this post I’m going to call his blog reader Bob: “I got an e-mail from a reader asking about breaking habits. I realized I’m not that knowledgeable about this topic, and I remember I heard you talk about it before. I thought you might know the answer, and take a few minutes of your valuable time to enlighten us, or point us to a piece of writing you’ve done on the topic.” Here’s the question from Bob. The sub-heading is mine for ease of reading, the rest is verbatim. Why Do I Revert To Previous Negative Habits? “Why do I revert to past practices that are not healthy when I have spent several months cultivating good habits that have resulted in healthy changes in my life? I’ve listened to some Anthony Robbins on self sabotage and seem to understand that what I call sabotage is actually a mechanism to avoid pain. But when I am living a healthy lifestyle and revert back to some unhealthy practices I am not sure what the pain is that I am trying to avoid. Perhaps this just means I need a good mental health counselor, but I just prefer to not go there if at all possible, because of their proclivity toward the use of pharmaceuticals. It seems to t...
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