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Tilde Ann Thurium shares the story of how she hacked her habits to go from "mouse addict" to "Atom whiz” and dives into researched-backed psychological tips on how to incrementally refactor habits. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Tilde Ann Thurium is a Software Engineer building the Atom editor at GitHub.
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8. Sending weekly updates to a
friend doubled the odds of
successfully completing a goal.
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21. In one study, the amount
of time it took for a new
habit to stick varied from
18 days to 254 days.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.674
22. "Missing one opportunity
to perform the behaviour
did not materially affect the
habit formation process."
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.674