The "21 days to build a habit" misconception
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this episode I break down major misconceptions about habits and give you scientific strategies for building long-lasting ones. I debunk the myth of the 21 days and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Kids love to discover new things with their mouths. |
| 0:05.0 | But some things aren't safe. |
| 0:08.0 | So most Erastel lithium coin batteries are coated with a repulsive taste to make children spit them out. |
| 0:15.0 | Duracelle lithium coin batteries, the safer choice. Hi, I'm your host Dr. Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental |
| 0:30.9 | Mess. |
| 0:31.9 | We've all heard that it takes 21 days to build a habit and once the habit is built it becomes this mindless thing we just do on repeat. |
| 0:39.0 | Well, according to scientific research, mine included, this is simply not true. |
| 0:45.0 | And in fact, believing this can harm your mental health and mess with your memory. |
| 0:50.0 | But never fear because I'm here, and I'm going to explain the truth about how habits form, how you can take advantage of this to improve your mental health and memory and well-being overall. |
| 1:00.0 | I have spent nearly four decades researching and clinically applying this information and have a lot of helpful information to share with you. |
| 1:08.0 | Just a quick note, if you want to listen to the full version, you can watch Ad Free on my neurocycle app, and to download the app |
| 1:14.7 | the app look for neurocycle on the App Store and Google Play and there is a web version |
| 1:19.1 | at neurocycle. App. The link in details will be in the show notes. Let's dive in to the truth about how habits form. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello everyone. Today I'm going to talk to you about what we've got wrong about habits. |
| 1:37.0 | Habits, there's so much misinformation around habits and incorrect information. So I, this whole neurocycle is about building |
| 1:46.4 | habits and a habit is something that produces lasting change and we have easy habits to build and we have more complex habits to build like changes in |
| 1:56.8 | mindsets. But as you building like as you work through the 63 days of the neurocycle, which is the system that I've developed to help you build habits. |
| 2:06.3 | You're building a little habit every day, but it takes for the neuroplastic effect to happen. |
| 2:12.3 | It takes around about nine weeks. |
| 2:15.0 | So in this, today I'm going to be explaining how this works and giving you some examples and |
| 2:21.8 | lots of graphs and everything to help you understand this in |
| 2:24.1 | the simple way as possible. So it is a bit sciency, but this is like a baseline for understanding |
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