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Chapter-3: Habits Recruit Total Consciousness

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• The Second Active Belief of Habits
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The Second Active Belief of Habits:

What are the three strict factors of a habit?

Most books, on the topic of habits, narrow down the factors of a habit to a small set of roughly three to five main factors. For this manuscript, I make the general claim that there are three strict factors that produce a habit. Being more precise,

Habit is the strict product of three factors: cue, routine and reward-recuperative.

Cue is the first factor of a habit that calls attention, alerts or warns a person’s total consciousness to prepare for a specific action or routine.

Routine is the second factor of a habit that consists of a specific set of actions, routines or practices, that follow immediately after a specific cue.

Reward-recuperative is the third factor of a habit that consists of a deliberate reward, gratitude or pleasant recuperative experience, that must follow immediately after the routine of a habit.

Unlike the model for motivation given in chapter two (see Equation-1), the factors of a habit are not commutative and they are not associative. In other words, the factors of a habit are locked in place and must not be rearranged or practiced in a random order.

To be clear, the factors of a habit have a very, very, strict order in which they must happen, if the goal is to establish a well-formed habit. Otherwise, if the order of the factors in a habit is not practiced in the correct strict manner, then the creation of a habit is not properly communicated. 

The most important aspect of any habit is understanding the strict order requirement of the factors in a habit. Each factor of a habit must occur in the strict order that has been objectively observed in life: Cue, Routine and then Reward-Recuperative. From an evolutionary perspective, the strict order of the factors in any habit establishes the clear communication of needing to build a habit.

For example, consider three of the most basic habits required to sustain human life: eating, breathing and drinking water. Each of these three life habits have a cue: the pain of hunger, the pain of needed air and the pain of thirst. And, immediately following these cues, a person enters a routine: consume food, breathe air and drink water. Then and only then will a reward recuperative be provided: the satisfaction of eating, the removal of pain after breathing air and the removal of pain after drinking water.

2. What are the three strict factors of a habit?

The three strict factors of a habit are: first, a cue; second, a routine; and third, a reward-recuperative.

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