Repeated actions carve neural pathways that run on autopilot. To build a new habit, you need a trigger, the behavior, and a reward, repeated until your brain does it without thinking. Affirmations work the same way, rewiring belief over weeks.
If you do something over and over and over, it becomes like the default route. And most of the time, by the time you're an adult, let's say 18, all the default routes in your mind are from just how you were raised. So that's just how you think, that's how you act. But to add a new thing, you have to be proactive about it and push and push and push till you override that old neural pathway. So then every time you see something or do something, it happens automatically. Even in the book, he talks about triggers. When you build a new habit, you have to have a trigger and you have to have a reward. So that you know every time I do this trigger, I do the habit, I get the reward. Then your brain will learn this is the new system. So every time you have that trigger, you'll start doing it automatically. Like the way you know how to walk home by yourself without thinking about it, you don't need to put in effort. Or every time you turn keys, you're not thinking enter key, turn key. Your brain and your body knows what to do because that's the neural pathway you've already made. It's why affirmations work. If you say that affirmation every morning or 3 times a day or 10 times a day for for 3 weeks or for a month, your brain will start to believe it's true and it just becomes your reality because you've rewired it, and then it's forever.
