John AssarafBehavioral Neuroscience Researcher and Goal Achieving Expert. High Performance Consultant/Coach

Practice Is Not Enough

Name: Practice Is Not Enough
Uploaded: 2021-11-12T21:47:28+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: John Assaraf
Description: John Assaraf argues that lasting change requires building habits — automatic combinations of thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors — rather than…

12 Nov 2021 · 1 min

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John Assaraf argues that lasting change requires building habits — automatic combinations of thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors — rather than chasing quick fixes. He critiques 'fast-food' thinking (e.g., rapid weight loss or short-term money-making) as unsustainable because without neural patterns (habits) the gains are temporary (examples: weight loss water weight; lottery winners losing money).

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Perfect practice makes perfect practice makes permanent. What are habits? Habits are automatic combinations of thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations, and behaviors that are all automatic to do without thought. But to get to a habit, we have to start, all right, with how we think. There's too many people out there teaching, you know, fast food, thinking, you know, lose all the weight in seven days. Well, you're going to gain it all back because most of the weight you lose is water, right? Let's see how much money I can make this weekend. Well, that's great, but you're not going to sustain it because the habit is not there. This is why people who win the lottery lose it within three years. And people who lose money that they've made it gain it back within three years because they have the neural pattern of the behavior. SA.