Peter Szabo (Source Hacker) explains the habit loop (cue → routine → reward) and offers steps to break bad habits. He recommends first mapping your habits (cue, routine, reward), then trying to replace routines, but stresses that a deeper cause — recurring negative emotions rooted in past memories — often drives repeated bad habits. He advocates "memory flipping" (Source Hacker) to identify and reprocess the original memory/emotion so the cue disappears and the bad habit fades. The video closes with a brief call-to-action.
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Do you break the bad habits that you know you shouldn't be doing? But we all still do them sometimes. Hey, my name is Peter Savo, the founder of Source Hacker. And in this video I'll be talking about the habit loop. The habit loop is essentially made up of the cue, the routine, and the reward. The cue or trigger is pretty much say the stress that you may feel. I feel now really stressed. Now I'm going to begin the routine of smoking, right? That gets me the reward of calming me down, feeling better, right? That's a habit loop. Person feels stressed at work, they smoke, they feel better, and they keep doing it again and again. Because clearly this reward seems to fix this problem right here. That cue, that trigger is that stimuli that makes them wanna do it, right? So we all have these habit loops, and what I'd recommend is step number one is to be aware of them. So take a piece of paper or a spreadsheet and. And then just write down cue or trigger routine or the habit itself, and then reward, what's the satisfaction out of it? And you could write down all the habits that you have, good or bad. Now, most people, what they try to do is they just try to change their routine, right? So there's still the same cue of, let's say you're stressed, but now instead of reaching for a cigarette, now you go meditate. And then you get the same reward of calming down. And it does work to degree. But a lot of people have issues with, you know, sticking to the new routine, new habit, the old one has been too ingrained or, or maybe they do it for a week and then they fall right back. And I know I've been guilty of this way too many times myself, and I'm still not perfect today, but I found that there's a deeper root cause that makes these bad habits really hard to go away. And if you look at them and you fix them, there's. There's a way to get rid of them. So again, one thing you can do is write the list and just flip the negative habit into a good one and keep the cue and reward pretty much consistent. But here's a secret. There's actually a cause. There's a reason why that cue shows up in the first place. So again, if you look at your list, okay, I do this, I overeat, I drink, smoke, whatever. And you're gonna see a common pattern. Wow. I do all these bad things when I'm stressed, when I'm feeling anxious, when I'm feeling depressed, when I'm Feeling bored, like you're gonna find the common emotions. And then I encourage you to ask yourself, why, How. Why do I constantly feel this way? Right now, in Memory Flipping Mastermind, Source Hacker, we actually teach the techniques of how to exactly figure that out. But long story short, we put them through a series of questions, right? How do I know this is a problem? How do I know that I constantly feel this way? What's the emotion? Really zoom in on that and then find what's the root cause? Memory, When I felt this way the first time. Because it's no accident if you keep living life and going into the same negative states again and again and again, and you can't seem to get out of them, and you can't seem to stop doing the things you know you shouldn't be doing. There is a reason behind that. Chances are, in the past, there's a memory, something happened, right, that made you feel that way, and now you're just reenacting it again and again and again with different people, different scenarios, but it's the same thing. So if you went back to that memory and flipped it, cleaned it up, get rid of the negative emotion in the first place, you're going to notice that that stress or boredom or whatever cue was triggering the bad habit, the bad routine that is now dissipating is lowering eventually goes completely away. So imagine if you could go to the root cause instead of just the surface level, and you could get rid of that negative emotion that's causing you to smoke, to ovary, to do all these things, right? Imagine if that low level of anxiety, that, that stress wasn't there anymore, you. You didn't have to calm yourself down anymore. Well, then there's no use for a cigarette or a drink or a drug or poison or whatever, right? So that's what we do with memory flipping, with source hacking. We go to the source and instead of just working with the symptom, I mean, of course, let's take holistic action, let's flip them routine. Let's take action in the physical realm, but also in your mind. And deeper than that, we go to the source, we flip that, and boom, the desire to do these bad things goes away and these bad habits fall away pretty much on their own. So this was helpful. Click the like, let me know. And if you have any questions, let me know as well. This is Peter Salvo, and see you in the next one.
