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BJ Fogg
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BJ Fogg's personal blog at tinyhabits.com covers productivity and health. Since 2012, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Tiny Habits”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- Tiny Habits15 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2012-01-12
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-08-19
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-08-11
- /join2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-31
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-20
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-30
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> Every small win is motivating. Every small win builds momentum. Momentum energizes. Starting small is an unreasonably good way to hack your brain. A book called "Tiny Habits" describes a system of behavior modification based on the idea: https://www.tinyhabits.com It gives the example of flossing. Instead of resolving to floss every night, resolve to floss one single tooth every night. It takes less than five seco…
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on “Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it”Submitted Tiny Habits as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAttention is good. Building the habit of paying attention is hard. Many people who get good at meditation underestimate the effort required. Highly recommend BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits for more on how to get started on anything important. Similar to the OP's separate article on kaizen: https://tinyhabits.com/about/
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on “The quiet art of attention”Submitted Tiny Habits w/ Dr. BJ Fogg as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, while working and raising a young boy. I just needed to escape the hellish pressure of having raised millions to build a business that didn't work, and worrying about my obligations to investors and the team members I hired. It was a bunch of tiny steps that I had to slot into the constraints of a working life. I recommend "Tiny Habits": https://tinyhabits.com Fogg has good ideas about how to redesign behavior…
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on “Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care”Submitted Tiny Habits with Dr. BJ Fogg – Behavior Change as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Reading and writing more" are just aspirations. Those don't translate well to new behaviors. BJ Fogg (Stanford prof, behavioral scientist) lays out how to build new behaviors in Tiny Habits. You need to make them easy and attach the easy thing to something you already do regularly. (When I sit down to lunch, I read one page...) https://tinyhabits.com/ Secondly, your mind is interfering with its own work. Tim Gallwe…
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on “Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough”Submitted Tiny Habits w/ Dr. BJ Fogg - Behavior Change as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat sounds very similar to BJ Fogg's tiny habit's program. He adds in the idea of tiny celebrations and doesn't talk much about consequences or including other people. But he runs a free email program nearly every week that you might be interested in. http://tinyhabits.com/
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on “Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?”If you're serious about trying to form a new habit, BJ - and people he's trained and bots they've created - runs a free 5-day program: https://www.tinyhabits.com/join (I'm unaffiliated)
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on “What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?”Check out my comment above about: http://tinyhabits.com/ His basic philosophy is to anchor a very small habit to one you already do. For example, is there one thing you always do first at work? Make coffee, open email? Then choose a tiny habit you would like to form (it should take less than 30 seconds) and do it right after that normal routine habit. (I don't know, maybe write down one task you promised someone you…
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on “Screw motivation, what you need is discipline”If you are interested in creating habits, try this free 1 week course from this site: http://tinyhabits.com/ I did it and it really worked out quite well. The guy who runs it BJ Fogg, also has some quite interesting insights into habits and habit formation. The habits I worked on were to load my personal kanban every morning while I make coffee, and also to plan my 3 most important todos on it while I have my first…
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on “Screw motivation, what you need is discipline”I am in no means to speak as a serial unfinisher, but I'm more comfortable with myself and found this helpful: I took this when Dr. Fogg started developing this: https://www.tinyhabits.com/ after finishing The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Key takeaways for me: - Habits replace other habits: sitting at desk --> take a break in fresh nature air - I can anchor other habits on keystone habits: taichi --> plant based…
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on “Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?”BJ Fogg [1] has done a ton of research on habit formation. I successfully used some of it to form simple habits like daily exercise, house chores, etc. Still, you need a reason to get going. I want to drop my body fat to 12%. Sounds stupid, but keeps me going... [1] http://tinyhabits.com/
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on “Getting things done”BJ Fogg's tiny habits is a good way. You might know him as author of the book "persuasive technologies". But his habit tools are well studied and tested (according to him ;) http://tinyhabits.com/
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on “Ask HN: Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?”It's not an app (although those apps may help implement it, idk). It's a method from a researcher B.J. Fogg, who wrote a book called "Tiny Habits" [1]. I haven't read that one, but I listened to a similar approach in "Atomic Habits" [2]. [1]: https://tinyhabits.com/ [2]: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
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on “The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual”https://www.tinyhabits.com/join Try this for 5 days, it'll give you everything that the book gives you and it is very low commitment. Also, if you find that it works, you can move on to the book.
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on “Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?”I was in your place and slowly getting better where people actually say that they like interacting and talking with me. What really helped? 1. Meditation and specific one at that called - metta meditation. Most of the time issues lies with the fact that we as introverts feel unfulfilled and think something is wrong with us. But, there is nothing wrong with us. This meditation helps with that and makes you realize th…
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on “Ask HN: Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?”It is not easy. While at university, I once went to the university shrink and said, look, I have no motivation, I can't get myself to go to the gym and exercise, I don't manage to get a good sleep rhythm, I eat crap, I don't study enough, I have no discipline. The guy says, well, I know exactly what's wrong and what you need to do: you need to develop more discipline, study more, eat healthy, develop a regular sleep…
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on “Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?”I recommoned BJ Fogg's tiny habits course: http://tinyhabits.com/ . It's a really simple and easy free email course that shows one way of creating new habits. How do you like those two apps? I'm currently trying out strides, but it seems like I only use it when I'm logging stuff. I'm kind of wondering if a paper calendar would be better to keep the logs right in front of me.
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on “Ask HN: How do you create productive habits?”I think doing things in little steps is the key to moving big things over time [0] - especially so with the help of others around. There's been a good amount of research showing that having others around encourages us to do things and to do them better.[1] (Actually building something if you're keen to try it to do things with others [2]) It really comes down to just doing and let the act of doing find your way. [0]…
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on “Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma”The Power of Habit and http://tinyhabits.com/ are both great.
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on “Spaced repetition for study and learning”BJ Fogg takes this further with his "Tiny Habits" method: https://www.tinyhabits.com/ . He adds in the idea of environment triggers (e.g. you go pee) and doing the smallest part of the habit that you can cope immediately after the trigger (e.g. do one pushup).
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on “Get started with 2-minute rule”If you want to try out a new technique to train for habits, check out this site by BJ Fogg @ Stanford University: http://tinyhabits.com/ The method trains you to add a new habit to your life by doing a tiny habit every day, anchored to an already existing habit. For example, "Before I visit Hacker News, I will drop down and do TWO pushups." Eventually, you can grow your new habit to make it a bigger part of your lif…
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on “Andrew Ng on Life, Creativity, and Failure”There is a reward at the end. That is an important requirement for this method. It’s easy to try this out in a little more structured way and with assistance. Tiny habits [1] has a free five day program where you can try it and seek assistance from a person trained in this method. I tried it and it didn’t really stick for me, but I wouldn’t say that it was a total waste of my time. I could relate to the advice and I…
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on “Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?”I was talking to my father about this topic last week. We talked about the best strategies for combating procrastination. He used to be in the British Army and suggested that a militaristic approach has always worked for him. He talked about the button polishing, the bed sheet folding and the shirt starching. These were tasks that were set by the commanding officers and needed to be performed flawlessly. They weren'…
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on “Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)”For people struggling with forming a productive ritual/routine, you guys should try BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits: https://www.tinyhabits.com/ I went through the 5-day program this week and it seems to help a lot.
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on “Why you need both rituals and routines to power your workday”For those looking for an easy way to begin forming new habits, I'd definitely recommend professor Fogg's "3 Tiny Habits" guide. link - http://tinyhabits.com/ .
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on “The exercise habit”I read the book and can't remember anything about it except the first chapter where James describes an accident he was in. Tiny Habits, from the man who created Behavioural Science, is much more concrete, doable and memorable: https://tinyhabits.com/
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on “Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones”I'm battling procrastination for 15 years now. The three only things that really worked (as in "having effects beyond a few months") for me: - Accepting procrastination as part of you & forgiving yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267564 - Tackling only one important task per day: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/ - Tiny Habits: http://tinyhabits.com/
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on “Guide to Personal Productivity Methods”
