A free class on Stop Style Profiles, habit cessation and behavior change by Eric Edmeades.

This is something different on YouTube. This is a free masterclass. Not only is it free, I am paying for you to see it because I want you to understand how behavior actually changes. Look, most of us have tried quitting in the past. We try to quit this, try to quit that, try to stop scrolling, try to stop vaping, try to stop smoking, try to stop sleeping in, try to stop any number of things. But most of us have failed doing that. And here's the worst part. Every single time we try to stop something, and we fail at it, our self-esteem takes a dive. So what I'd like to do is describe for you how habits are created, more importantly, how they're broken, and I wanna share with you that there are 4 very specific stopping styles. And by the way, there's nothing for you to buy. This is me sharing some of my best content with you because that's what YouTube is all about. So let's first talk about behavior. One of the reasons that habits are really hard to break is that for millions of years, Humans were designed to accumulate habits, not to get rid of them. Like, our job was to learn how to survive. Our job was to learn what to do every single day to keep ourselves and our families alive. When we did something that wasn't good, nature told us pretty quickly, and so the habit never formed. You went over to eat that berry, it made your mouth feel gross, it made you feel sick, you didn't do it again. But if you ate that berry, you felt good, and you were alive the next day, and then you ate that berry again, and then you ate that berry again, pretty soon that berry becomes part of your your survival strategy. The challenge is that even bad habits fit into that framework today. Think about this. Somebody who smokes or vapes, when they do that, they logically know it's not very good for them, but their body gets a different message. Oh, look, I'm deep breathing, I'm relaxing. This is helping me survive. The fact that 10 or 20 years from now, they might get some shocking news from the hospital, that doesn't even factor into that moment. And then the longer they do it for, the more it becomes part of their inner wiring as a survival strategy. Now get this, imagine you have a bad habit and you're trying to break it, but it's been written in as a survival strategy. Then when you try to change it, your body says, "What are you trying to do, kill me? What are you trying to do, change my identity?" And it rebels against it. And that's why most quitting averages at only 7 days. Yeah, it's true. Whether people are quitting smoking, quitting vaping, Quitting sleeping in, quitting overeating, it doesn't matter what they're quitting. The average time that people can stick with those things is about 7 days. I wanna suggest to you that you quit quitting and start stopping. It's a completely different way of thinking, but when you stop something, it doesn't mean you've quit. It just means in this moment, I've chosen not to do it. And then you can celebrate that single stop. And then maybe the next day you try to stop twice and you can celebrate again. And I'll tell you something magical about celebration. Celebration is the ultimate habit creator. Here's what I mean. These days, people often talk about how many days it takes to create a habit. Is it 15 days? Is it, is it 7 days? Is it 66 days? Is it 21 days? It's the wrong question. It's not the number of days that creates a habit. It's the level of emotional intensity. Look, a young athlete scores the winning goal for the championship. And is celebrated and celebrates, then what happens is their psyche looks back and says, what did I have for breakfast today? And that breakfast becomes the breakfast of champions. That breakfast becomes game day breakfast. A habit is created in a single moment. And so if you quit quitting and you start stopping and you learn to layer it with the right celebrations, you are on the right track. And there's one more really important thing to know, and that is that there are 4 distinctive behavior personalities, 4 stopping styles. And if you try to use one of the stopping styles that isn't a match for you, it's not gonna work. And that happens to almost all of us. One day our friend does successfully quit doing something, so we try their method. They went cold turkey, we tried cold turkey, but it didn't work for us. And then somebody else did it, but they did the weaning process. They tried it slowly. We tried that, that didn't work for us. What I want you to know is that these 4 types They're very distinctive, and when you understand which one is yours, you will look at the habits you have and you will have a much better understanding of how to stop the habit. And by the way, that itself is a clue. This is not about you stopping, and this is not about stopping you. This is about us stopping the behavior. A behavior is like a piece of software code that's sitting inside your head, and what we want to do is understand that software code, understand your personality type, and Decode it. And when you do that, sometimes the behavior just stops all by itself. No cravings, no withdrawal, no going back. So the 4 stop profiles are, first of all, the pioneer. The pioneer is somebody who is sort of, you know, in the middle between introversion and extroversion. And usually they're fairly creative. They love starting stuff. Ah, they're not so good with finishing some of the things they start. And that matters when it comes to habit creation and breaking breaking a habit. Novelty is very important for them. The next stop profile is the collaborator. This is somebody who's significantly more social, maybe even extroverted, and they are much better at creating and stopping habits when they've got a team around them or they've got people holding them accountable. The collaborator likes social behavior change. And then you've got the builder. Now, the builder is a bit like the pioneer in the sense that they're not particularly introverted or extroverted. They're kind of in the middle, but they're much more grounded in their thinking than the average pioneer. They think in very practical terms, and so for them, habit creation and habit cessation is a step-by-step process. If you can create the right step-by-step understanding of what leads up to the behavior and then a step-by-step way of changing it, the builder can create some significant change. And then you have the analyst. The analyst is somebody who's generally more introverted, generally a little less social, and somebody who's really interested in data. And what's fascinating about the analyst is if they get the right data given to them the right way, sometimes that is enough for them to stop forever. And that's why sometimes cold turkey looks like such a great strategy, because an analyst learned something that made them quit in a moment and everybody goes, oh look, cold turkey works. Nope, it works when you understand your profile. And as I said, This is a mini masterclass, my gift to you, nothing for you to buy. And in fact, one more gift. If you would like to know your STOP style, you can do it right now, totally for free at stopstyleprofile.com. Go and find out your STOP style and maybe you can quit quitting and start stopping.