Habit formation | TheRedPill

I just want to reiterate a very well known method how to adopt new habits. It helped me to workout consistently, learn to code, learn a new language, improve my reading habits, save money and much more.

Now.. this method is not very complex nor is it something new under the sun... It is just a method that might be beneficial to you. There are other ways of adopting habits. However, I would recommend to try it and see for yourself.

Planning - Baby steps - Starting right now

All these concepts are useful on their own, however, putting them together promotes adoption of new habits and improves your life (it did mine at least ...and I was a habitual procrastinator).

Planning. You will rarely accomplish anything without setting goals and creating a plan to achieve them. "Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination".
Baby steps. Starting slow allows you to acclimate to your new tasks/habits. Starting something new is not very difficult. Being consistent is! How do you become consistent? You could just be a strong willed, responsible and an extremely driven person. However, if you have trouble adopting new habits... you probably aren't. Here come the baby steps.... Starting small and continuing small for some time helps your mind and body to acclimate. What does starting small mean? It means that first couple habit sessions should not be over 15 minutes long. Ideally, your activity should be under 5-10 minutes for the first 1-2 weeks. Note: If you are a real procrastinator/ weak willed, I would suggest adopting only one new habit at time so you are not overwhelmed.
Starting right now. Start your new habit right now (if you can). If not right now, start TODAY. Create a plan today and start your habit TODAY. I cannot stress this enough TODAY.

PROCESS

Plan the habit and write it down -> This creates accountability, direction and helps you track if you did the task
Make the activity very short at first -> Around 10 minutes. Because the activity is so short you can definitely find the energy to do it. The activity can stay short forever but it doesn't have to.
Schedule it for a time when you can actually do the task - It should not be hard to schedule it in the beginning since its only 10 minutes.
DO IT REGULARLY. I would suggest everyday if you really want to adopt the habit.

This is basically it. I included some examples below for those interested

New language example

1st step - Create a habit check list - This can be a some type of notes app (it needs to have a check list option) on your phone/computer. Here you will write down your daily habits that you already do every day.

^{Oversimplified} ^example:

^Morning

^Shower
^{Clean teeth}
^{Make bed}
^{Make breakfast}

^Evening

^{Clean teeth}
^{Clean kitchen for the day}

2nd step - Research how to learn a new language - You need to find material and how to learn a new language. There are thousand of free resources on the internet to do this. However, I would recommend a book that also has exercises. If you want (and have the resources), you can buy a physical one.

3rd step - Divide part of your learning material into 10-15 minute chunks - You need to divide part of the learning material into small chunks. I usually divide them into 28 parts when I m starting. It doesn't have to be precise and you'll learn to estimate it more correctly as time goes on.

4th step - Put a 10-15 minute learning task in your daily habit list - I usually do this in the morning. I wake up 15 minutes earlier and do my new habit task in that time. I do this EVERY DAY. It's quick, low effort and I actually have enough motivation and energy to do the task.

^Morning

^{Learning German}
^Shower
^{Clean teeth}
^{Make bed}
^{Make breakfast}

^Evening

^{Clean teeth}
^{Clean kitchen for the day}

5th step - NEVER MISS A DAY! You will.. but this is the attitude you should have.

6th step - Look at your habit check list every day and mark it down if you completed your tasks

Working out example

You want to start working out but you never worked out before? You want to get back to working out but have hard time finding energy and time?

1st step - Create a habit check list - this can be a note in your phone/computer where you write down your daily habits that you already do every day.

^{Oversimplified} ^example:

^Morning

^Shower
^{Make bed}
^{Make breakfast}
^{Clean teeth}

^Evening

^{Clean teeth}
^{Clean kitchen for the day}

2nd step - Plan your habit - So you want to start working out? Well, you could go to the gym for 1 hour and travel 40 minutes there and back. However, you might lack the motivation to do so. It's a lot of time... you will need to buy a gym membership.. get workout clothes..

On the other hand, you might be super motivated right now and have no problem going to the gym. Your gf just broke up with you.. or you saw a post on instagram of a super jacked guy and you want to be like him.... or you just somehow found the motivation to improve yourself.... How long will this initial burst of motivation last? You might just keep working out till the rest of your life. OR will it last 1 week ? 1 month ? Until you get the flu and be sick for 1 week?

A more reliable method, in my opinion, is to start small. Put in your habit checklist a new entry

^Morning

^{40 pushups and 40 squats}
^Shower
^{Make bed}
^{Make breakfast}
^{Clean teeth}

Now, one of your habits is to do 40 pushups and 40 squats a day. If you do not know how to do these two exercises, you can watch 2 youtube videos and stand in front of the mirror to check your form. Check the videos again. Check your form.You can now likely do pushups and squats. You have a habit you can do everyday and it takes you under 10 minutes.

During your first week you can do only 40 pushups and 40 squats every day (if this is too difficult, start lower). Next week you do 50/50 every day. Third week you can add 60 crunches in your routine 4th week 55/55/70. You can slowly build up the intensity.

I've done a routine of 80 pushups/ 80 squats/ 90 weighted crunches for two years now. I alternate this routine with a 15 minute run. I can do it before breakfast. It's fast. I get a lot of energy for the day. It doesn't interfere with my 4x a week gym routine.

3rd step - Adapt or improve this habit to whatever you like

Shorter/ Longer workout

Full body/ Major exercises

Add stretching/ Don't add it

4th step - NEVER MISS A DAY! You will.. but this is the attitude you should have - I was never overtrained doing this, however, do what you think is best

5th step - Look at your habit check list every day and mark it down if you completed your tasks

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Then the planning and obsessing at the start would not be futile

That's the thing, they treat it as a long drawn out marathon.

It really is not difficult to look at something, learn the method, and implement the knowledge the first time.

Only stupid people need to be re-explained, re-educated, and go through hours and hours of obsession and planning.

You know what a solid plan to lose 60lb of fat in 1 year looks like?

Easy -- Eat less total calories than one Exerts, Stop drinking beer, sodas, or any sugary drinks, eat a lot of cooked meat / fruit, and lift weights.

Any fatass can lose 60lb in 1 calender year if they do those 4 things. Cut down the time to 9 months if they incorporate occasional 3 day Jesus fasts.

Yet, somehow, people still cant seem to unfat themselves because they're just stupid, or stubborn. The idealist in me clings to the hope that they really aren't that stupid, just stubborn who refuse to admit their way is wrong and submit to a teacher for a little bit.

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because your ultimate goal is to create busyness for the sake of busyness

No, it is most definitelly not.

The goal is to have a written plan and structure for the simplest things. The act of writing the simple chores down removes the need for the brain/mind to remember each chore. That in turn frees the mind to focus on more complicated things.

It's about effciency, mental energy and directing your focus to important things.

learning German is the definition of psuedo activity

Learning new laguages is very beneficial for thinking since it requires you to stop thinking in one language. That "thinking in one language" is done on unconscious level if you're a native speaker, your're on autopilot. Learning a new language requres the brain to connect the spoken word and the written word to it's conceptual meaning. This in turn forces your mind to become more flexible and resorceful when engaging in abstract thinking.

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This is how I see your replies in this thread.

You are so far out there on the road to "radicalism" and "riding the tiger" that you completely lost sight of the beggining of the road. You intepret everything end everyone using a few concepts that make sense to you, but the problem is that you distilled these concepts into a reflexive responses to other people actions and comments. These reflexive responses became your nature and (through mass repetition perhaps) instead of enhacing your replies and conversations they boiled them down to "normie detected > flame him > double down on flame" and so on. Your reactions became simplistic to the point of being crude carricature of the books you took them from.

I remeber a few monts ago you posted a comment endorsing some post or a user. The wording you used was incredibly contrasted with what you usually write like, that it stuck out so visibly, to the point that it looked suspicious. Think "antifa/BLM endorsing pro Trump rally" suspicious. Don't take this literally, I'm not accusing you of any bad intentions at all, not in slightest. My point is to illustrate how the "exteme polar opposite" you are starting to look like to people who are not radicalizing as fast/far as you are.

You are "radicalizing" your communication to the point that you are beggining to forget how to have a non-radicalized exchange on the internet. You're the guardian of non-normie thinking on TRP, but you are becoming critical, if not aggresive, toward people who DON'T disagree with you on main issues.

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It's not about individial comments, it's about your general attitude, the way you approach every conversation and the way you engage every person you talk with. Don't confuse style wth content.

As for this:

The irony of saying someone took too many redpills on a subreddit called the red pill...

There are people (here, on trp.red and on other forums I visit) that "took the same redpills" you did. I know (and know of) a few people in real life (including level headed, openminded and occasional guillible crank magnets) who would go head to head with you in the "redpill taking contest", including philosophy and "radical" books. Literally not one of that people communicate like you do, none of them begin or end their conversations with flaming, none of them drive people who disagree away, certainly none of them are "aggressive" toward people that do agree with them.

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Attacking my exclusionary position is by definition an inclusionary democratic position.

You don't have an "exlusionary position", not anymore anyway. That's b/c your pursuit of escalating radicalism turned you from TRP superstar (who had a lot of sway and deference in the community) to yet another edgelord who has to edge more and more to remain relevant. IOW you are not excluding anyone b/c hardly anyone values your opinion anymore. Look at the comments below your posts. They went from engaging in and provoking discussion to responding with one liners "fuck GLO" or "fuck yeah GLO" which is indicative of you becoming an entertainer, not a leader.

Also - positions. The virtue signaling word of habitual political compas solvers who communicate in memes while listening to Jdreg in background. "Put the dot on the political compass where he touched you".

At least thats my personal opinion, sorry... position. Don't forget to ask to brigade this on your forum, call it Will to Downvote.

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Oops little James is too stupid to comprehend the political currents behind things and must instead reduce everything to a personal drama, because that way it's easier for his little brain to comprehend.

The government is engaging in a psychological warfare campaign to trick people into poisoning themselves with doom juice, yet here you are complaining that my views dont align with the establishment.

That's how dumb you are.

My position is simple: you and your people are a bunch of stupids who read and write at an 8th grade level. Nothing you say matters because your incapable of creating or writing anything worthwhile or interesting.

My content and platform provides a much higher level of discorse precisely because it's foundation is in direct opposition to your worldview.

If you would like to contest this please link me to something brilliant which you have written recently.

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Here's the breakdown so far: I should not interfere with you going off on random guy for "how to form good habits" post he wrote b/c the fact of me defending that is "inclusionary democratic position" which happens to be the political/cultural program of the establishment and the establishment is pushing doom juice program on people.

You think that flaming the "habit guy" or the "list of chores guy" is a form of "your views not aligning with establishment".

And since the establishment pushes doom juice program, me saying "having a list of chores can be helpful" for you probably means I covertly support doom juice program.

My content and platform provides a much higher level of discorse

I see that now.

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The irony of GLO's descent into philosophical madness is that one of his personal heroes is F. Nietzsche, and the man couldn't even fucking get laid. Imagine respecting the work of a philosopher who's a textbook simping beta male and attempting to sway people to his ideology in a forum dedicated to sexual strategy.

He got rejected by a bitch and pulled a radical Van Gough, instead of chopping off an ear, he literally stabbed himself in the chest.

The sad disconnection from reality that GLO experiences is further exacerbated by the fact that he claims "game does not work in 2021." That statement surmises the situation succinctly.

I have so much ammo I can fire off on this guy but I'd really much rather do it in a 1 on 1 skype call with him personally because I dont believe in shit talking people's personal lives in public forum. What I will do is critique his ideas and positioning in public, that is fair game to me.

But I mean if he brings up my personal life, then I guess I'll fight fire with fire...

Edit: Another point that /u/Jamesskepp helped me realize is GLO refuses to engage in socratic dialogue. Any time any question is brought to him he either calls the person stupid for asking the question, or plays sophist word games by dancing around / evading clear, discussion forwarding questions.

He will then turn around and say it's others who are the sophists.

Certainly someone who aught to be giving mentoring advice, someone who calls the students who seek him out idiotic. Socrates would be proud.

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I don’t know how much you’ve kept up with all his recent posts. If you did read all his new ones, I don’t think you comprehended them very well.

he says “game does not work in 2021.”

The clarification is that he said game does not work in the western world anymore. Sure it might get you laid from time to time, GLO is saying you’re much better off going to The Balkans or Latin America to game women as the return for your efforts is much higher. He is basically saying most women in the west aren’t worth gaming because you won’t get anywhere with some since they’re borderline aspies, majority are fat, and the rest are entitled.

He’s mainly calling for all able males to leave the West for a productive sexual strategy as western women aren’t even a fruit worth harvesting. The fruit is already spoiled and it is more difficult to pick.

Just thought I’d give my 2 cents on my interpretation since I feel something got lost in yours.

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See that's the problem with living in an ivory tower built upon theories.

I have had 3 separate girlfriends in the last 3 months, and have another date lined up within this month. I just cant be bothered to find the time for these hoes.

BorderlineAspies

You mean smart girls? Yeah, just had a hot doctor in training ask me if I have a crush on anybody from our new univeristy while she brushed my arm.

Majority are fat

Everywhere I look I see fuckable women. It is clear he does not know where to look to find fuckable women and has become disconnected from that facet of life.

The rest are entitled

Neg, tease, pressureflip. Tf is this, rocket science?

Like Rian Stone and Jamesskepp have both said, he is so disconnected from reality that rather than admitting the darwinistic truth of game has evolved / changed he takes the ideological black pill position that game no longer works in the west and the ROI is worthless.

Go ahead, hire him as a coach and discuss this with him at length. You'll get the answer you need.

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Title	Habit formation
Author	azureusi
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Date	June 29, 2021 1:32 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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Planning - Baby steps - Starting right now

PROCESS

This is basically it. I included some examples below for those interested

New language example

Working out example

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