The Author’s View
Habit can be replaced, but can’t be removed or deleted. Through his book ‘The Power of Habit’, Charles Duhigg explains his view toward habit and how it could affect a person or even an organisation. Duhigg believes that habit is formed by three different steps, which are cue, routine, and reward. According to Duhigg and his book, cue is a trigger that sets human brain to automatic mode to do the usual habit and which habit to be used, routine is the physical or mental or emotional activity that done after human’s mind triggered by cue, while reward is the feeling of satisfaction that helps the brain to figure out which particular loop that worth remembering for the future (Duhigg, 2012).
From the story of Eugene, the author view is about how habit cannot be removed and it can be created. The author also argue that a habit could be changed by changing the routine, instead of changing the cue and the reward as the example of the cafeteria where the author illustrates the situation using the snacking issues. The author is aware that the reward he is looking for is to socialize with his work colleague, instead of …show more content…
It is a habit that could start to transforms other habit and affect others as it creates small wins that leads someone to achieve another small wins that grow into bigger wins. That view is illustrated through the story of Paul O’neil in implementing the keystone habit of excellence in Alcoa, he aimed to reduce injury and results in increase in profits as well. The author also mentioned the importance of willpower and how it could change a habit. The story of Travis who succeed transforming himself after attending Starbucks’s training sessions and taught how to use willpower demonstrates how willpower could change habit. In a crucible times such as accident and crisis, a habit could change as the story of Rhode Island hospital changed its habit from the bad one to a good
Habit can be replaced, but can’t be removed or deleted. Through his book ‘The Power of Habit’, Charles Duhigg explains his view toward habit and how it could affect a person or even an organisation. Duhigg believes that habit is formed by three different steps, which are cue, routine, and reward. According to Duhigg and his book, cue is a trigger that sets human brain to automatic mode to do the usual habit and which habit to be used, routine is the physical or mental or emotional activity that done after human’s mind triggered by cue, while reward is the feeling of satisfaction that helps the brain to figure out which particular loop that worth remembering for the future (Duhigg, 2012).
From the story of Eugene, the author view is about how habit cannot be removed and it can be created. The author also argue that a habit could be changed by changing the routine, instead of changing the cue and the reward as the example of the cafeteria where the author illustrates the situation using the snacking issues. The author is aware that the reward he is looking for is to socialize with his work colleague, instead of …show more content…
It is a habit that could start to transforms other habit and affect others as it creates small wins that leads someone to achieve another small wins that grow into bigger wins. That view is illustrated through the story of Paul O’neil in implementing the keystone habit of excellence in Alcoa, he aimed to reduce injury and results in increase in profits as well. The author also mentioned the importance of willpower and how it could change a habit. The story of Travis who succeed transforming himself after attending Starbucks’s training sessions and taught how to use willpower demonstrates how willpower could change habit. In a crucible times such as accident and crisis, a habit could change as the story of Rhode Island hospital changed its habit from the bad one to a good