Please keep helping us think through some of what we do
simply by habit!
The difference between an animal that behaves with intention, rather than
simply by habit, is vast.
Not exact matches
Applying what I've learned from behavioral scientists such as B.J. Fogg, Daniel Kahneman and Charles Duhigg, I've found that
by simply breaking
habits down into their chain of actions, I can identify and target key moments to rewire behavioral tendencies — for my users and hopefully for myself.
If employees choose to work during off - hours, zmail discourages them from putting their
habits onto others
by sending emails during this time; they
simply save the messages as drafts to be manually sent later, or they program their email client to automatically send the messages during work hours.
To focus on
simply Google and Facebook, though, is to miss how much other data collection is going on: ad networks are tracking you on nearly every website you visit, your credit card company is tracking your purchases (and
by extension your location), your grocery store is tracking your eating
habit, the list goes on and on.
But there is
simply too much order in our world, too much constancy in our
habits, too much justice in our norms for us to think that the course of human events is not somehow channeled
by God's providential plan.
The weight of evidence, then, seems to he on the side of those who hold to the view expressed
by Carroll A. Wise, of Garrett Theological Seminary «The belief that the excessive use of alcohol is
simply a matter of
habit is no longer scientifically tenable.»
I later realized that logging my driving
habits simply wasn't top of mind anymore because
by that point I stopped thinking about touching my phone in the car.
While some consider the particular sleep
habits of a baby to
simply be a natural part of their character, more and more people are having success with improving the quality of a baby's sleep
by taking into consideration factors like the type of pillow they're using.
«If we
simply accept that chimpanzees have cultural
habits that spread
by means of social learning and then add this genetic picture to it, we get in fact a view closer to what we know about humans, and a broader debate that we have hardly had before,» says de Waal.
Like fidget spinners, a squishy stress ball can help someone with anxiety
by relieving tension, or
simply by keeping her hands busy while she watches TV, so she doesn't resort to a nervous
habit, such as picking at her cuticles, or biting her nails.
You can greatly improve the quality of your life
by simply transforming a few everyday
habits that have been keeping you in the slow lane all these years.
This semi-custom plan is great for individuals that
simply want to jump start healthy eating
habits by working through a meal plan created
by me.
And even after you reach your goals, you can keep the results
by simply maintaining the easy
habit.
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But these
habits of mind can't be learned and developed
by simply talking about them or memorizing the definition.
The income - mixing model is premised on the understanding that norms are contagious:
Simply by being exposed to better
habits and values, the less fortunate will adopt the ways of the more privileged.
Just as
by reality he understands not something to which liveliness of feeling may be an index, but
simply that liveliness itself, and
by an inferred or believed reality a feeling to which this liveliness has been communicated from one that already has it; so he is careful to tell us «that the supposition that the future resembles the past is derived entirely from
habit,
by which we are determined to expect for the future the same train of objects to which we have been accustomed.»
Sure, French tablet vendor Archos has a
habit of
simply slapping its name on Chinese tablets, (in this case it looks like the tablet was built
by Yuanfeng Technology).
But worse, he has adopted our late Rocky's
habit of waking one of us — me — at 4 — 5 am every morning
simply because someone drives
by in a loud truck around then and it his now his job to protect us from the noise.
Many people report dropping pant sizes
simply by getting into the
habit of standing on a scale regularly, probably because it subconsciously motivates you to reduce your portion sizes, choose healthier foods, and opt for the stairs instead of the escalator.
It's always great news when people are able to get a handle on their spending
habits by simply learning to conserve more.
Thousands of people have been able to improve their credit score
by simply obtaining educational information on how to pay off credit cards faster and learning better spending
habits.
The good news is, you can help your kitty live a happier, healthier life
simply by changing her mealtime
habits.
There's very little worse than a bad
habit any pet develops that could have been prevented
by simply thinking ahead.
So there's huge potential to reduce your personal energy and water use, and therefore your environmental footprint,
by simply greening your laundry
habits.
Of course, back then the U.S. at least was not dominated
by a bunch of wet blankets insisting that «our best days are behind us, we absolutely can not improve the smallest iota about our technologies or
habits without
simply laying down and dying right on the spot».
The kind of climate we wind up with is largely determined
by the total amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere as CO2 in the time before we finally kick the fossil fuel
habit (
by choice or
by virtue of
simply running out).
You can hire knowledge management consultants and buy expensive knowledge management software, but you can do basic knowledge management
simply by developing good working
habits and adopting a few simple — and free — tools.
It might, in the end,
simply be the difficulty everyone encounters when trying to break old purchasing
habits, multiplied
by lawyers» inherent difficulty in changing anything.
It is
simply too easy to fall back into old
habits and patterns, or to get distracted
by the latest client crisis, the stack of paperwork crying out for attention, the email inbox or the flashing voice mail message light.
One of the most effective ways to save a sizable chunk of money without altering your driving
habits or giving up your wheels is
by simply combining home and auto insurance policies.
By not spending, you can get a clearer picture of which expenses you truly need and which ones are
simply bad
habits you have formed.