In Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit, he asserts people can understand and change personal habits. Duhigg backs this claim with a description of the so-called habit loop composed of a cue, routine, and reward, pointing out the cues start habits and rewards signal the brain to remember routines. The author's purpose is to give information about habit loops people so they can understand how habits work and thus change them. With Duhigg’s insight about habits, students can stop the bad habit of procrastination, which is the habit of delaying assignments until the last minute.
In particular, students should “recognize which craving is the driving behavior” of procrastination and change it as a first step to stop (50). I, for example, procrastinate …show more content…
Duhigg said football players were under pressure “they went back into their comfort zones and old habits” and thus lost games (86). That is why many students choose to procrastinate. Sometimes studying is boring, tedious, and difficult and it is much easier to watch TV. By the same token, when the football players were actually motivated by something such as the death of someone “they started to believe” (87). Maybe something really needs to motivate students to not procrastinate. I believe students are way too comfortable with life. They live at home, they're dependent on their parent's income, for the most part, so they do not really face any backlash if they get bad grades. So, getting out of a comfort zone is very important if you want to change a habit. At first, I did not like the idea of going to a library, so I would go home. That was a bad idea, instead, I got out my comfort zone and went to the library and studied.
Another difficulty of changing habits is that the human brain “can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits” thus people have to put a lot of effort in order to change them (20). That can be a daunting task to do humans can “make unconscious choices without remembering them” (20). In other words, humans will be puzzled by the choices they make in life because they do not know what caused to make
In particular, students should “recognize which craving is the driving behavior” of procrastination and change it as a first step to stop (50). I, for example, procrastinate …show more content…
Duhigg said football players were under pressure “they went back into their comfort zones and old habits” and thus lost games (86). That is why many students choose to procrastinate. Sometimes studying is boring, tedious, and difficult and it is much easier to watch TV. By the same token, when the football players were actually motivated by something such as the death of someone “they started to believe” (87). Maybe something really needs to motivate students to not procrastinate. I believe students are way too comfortable with life. They live at home, they're dependent on their parent's income, for the most part, so they do not really face any backlash if they get bad grades. So, getting out of a comfort zone is very important if you want to change a habit. At first, I did not like the idea of going to a library, so I would go home. That was a bad idea, instead, I got out my comfort zone and went to the library and studied.
Another difficulty of changing habits is that the human brain “can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits” thus people have to put a lot of effort in order to change them (20). That can be a daunting task to do humans can “make unconscious choices without remembering them” (20). In other words, humans will be puzzled by the choices they make in life because they do not know what caused to make