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Learning, Habits & Behavior Change
Browse 16 free mental model guides in Learning, Habits & Behavior Change.
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Environment Design
Environment Design for Habits
Shape your surroundings to make good habits easier and bad habits harder through strategic cues and friction.
Read guideFriction Management
Strategically increasing or decreasing the effort required to take specific actions, shaping behavior by working with human tendencies toward ease and inertia.
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Habit Formation
Habit Discontinuity Effect
The tendency for habits to be more easily changed when a person's life context is disrupted, like moving or starting a new job.
Read guideHabit Loop: Cue, Routine, Reward
Understand the three-part neurological loop—cue, routine, reward—that drives every habit, from checking your phone to exercising.
Read guideHabit Reversal Training
A behavioral therapy method that replaces unwanted repetitive behaviors with controlled, incompatible actions through awareness training and competing response practice.
Read guideHabit Stacking
Link a new habit to an existing routine to make behavior change easier by using established neural pathways as automatic triggers.
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How We Learn
Desirable Difficulties
Introducing specific, manageable challenges into the learning process to improve long-term retention and understanding.
Read guideInterleaving Practice
A learning technique that mixes different topics or problem types within a single study session instead of practicing one thing repeatedly.
Read guideRetrieval Practice (Testing Effect)
Actively recalling information from memory is a more powerful way to learn than passively re-reading or reviewing it.
Read guideSpaced Repetition
A learning technique that involves reviewing information at strategic intervals to improve long-term retention.
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Mindset & Identity
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Motivation & Drive
Feedback Loops & Metrics
How measurable information about your progress creates the motivation engine that drives improvement.
Read guideReinforcement & Reward Prediction
Uncover how your brain learns from outcomes, creating the motivation that drives your daily habits and decisions.
Read guideReinforcement Schedules
Rules that control the timing of rewards for a behavior, powerfully shaping habits, motivation, and persistence.
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Overcoming Procrastination & Failure
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