Have you ever found yourself checking news feed or friends’ texts instead of doing something important? Maybe you smoke and tried to quit but always started again. It is our brain; in particular; its rewarding system developed through thousands years of evolution. When you encounter a situation when you know you should not do something but cannot help doing it, that is exactly it. After the presentation you will not only understand why but also how to overcome it. Without further ado, I invite you to watch the TED talk below:
Questions:
• Do you have Facebook or any other kind of chat addiction?
• What do you consider your worst habit?
• Have you tried to get rid of that habit? What were the results?
Questions:
• Do you have Facebook or any other kind of chat addiction?
• What do you consider your worst habit?
• Have you tried to get rid of that habit? What were the results?
Comments
My biggest weakness is probably eating a ton of sweet junk food. I used to smoke cigarettes, but I've stopped about 3 or 4 years ago. Getting back to eating sweets, I'm trying to replace them by eating bananas, dactyls, figs, peanuts etc. Result are pretty satisfying, I'm eating way less than I used to. Also sports helps me to stay in eating clean - when you fell on your skin how hard and energy consuming it is to burn one KitKat, you will think twice in future before eating junk food.
My worst habit, at least according to other people, is fidgeting - moving my legs while sitting. I do it without even noticing it but I usually stop when someone asks me to. :)
But... example from my life .
What he said is absolutely true. My uncle was a chain smoker. One day when he was sitting by the pool he gave a thought to himself about this smoking. He noticed that "Smoking is a waste of money, bad for health and overall smells terrible." Then he threw his lighter and the pack of cigarette into the pool and never touched it again.
My worst habit would be moving my legs while sitting. I havenever tried to get ridof it though, as it is pretty harmless.
My worst habit is procrastination. I love it because I have more free time right now (such stupid illusion), but I hate it too (most of the time) because later I have to do everything having small amout of time and when I finish dealing with those tasks I always promising myself that it was the last time I did it... And then it happens again... and again.
And I'm fighting with this habit regulary. And getting rid of my procrastination habit becomes another habit, like war between light and darkness. But fortunately there is more light right now in my life than darkness (wow such dramatic :D).
And now I have more free time. I recommend 10/10
Whenever it comes to bad habits, I do not recall any. Recently I puchuased a book called "The power of habits" and started working on good habits. One of them is waking up early at the morning - in most cases its 6 o'clock.
I battle with workaholism daily (and I'm not saying it as a badge of honor). I consider it my worse habit by far, because it influences my relationship with my family and friends. I have tried to overcome my addiction by participating in other activities I enjoy like yoga, swimming and bouldering but I had to cancel them because of the pressure of working while studying. Hope I get a chance to come back to them when the pressure drops a bit later on.
The most annoying habit I have is procrastination. I postpone every single thing I have to do. This leads to massive accumulation of tasks which results in delays.
I'm trying to get rid of it all the time, but I can't. Maybe I will succeed later...
In order to get rid of that really bad habit I am trying to change my behavior when I got bored or demotivated when working on some dull task. Instead of checking FB or other social media I am trying to switch to another, more interesting task for a while if it is possible or read some interesting article or watch useful tutorial online. I also like to play table tennis with my team mates, as most of the companies do not want their employees to be glued to their desks for the whole day and provide proper equipment for sport activities, which the case of my company as well.
As my worst habit I consider spending time at home. Actually everything I need I have at my home. I mean when I want to do workout I can do it at home, when I need something I usually buy it via Internet and I spend a lot of time at home even though I know I should go out sometime.
Actually I have never tried to get rid of this habit, because I don't care about it.
Actually i didn't ever consider my worst habit but when i though about it for a while, I deduced that i may spend too much time in front of my monitor.
No i never tried to get rid of my habit, i think that this habit may be advantage at IT market.
My worst habit would be talking while eating but I'm trying to improve that.
Yes Facebook is evil. I think that I must get away from bad habits which are checking Instargram and Facebook very often. I do this ussually when I wait for things and when I have lot of free time. But when I see my girlfriend I think that ut isn't so bad with me. Last time I saw that she has maximium 5 min break when she doesn't have phone on her hand.
I think that everyone can quit bad habits. I know this because I quit smoking and in the past I was fat but now I'm not. Everything is in you head.
My worst habit is procrastination. Why do you think I am commenting presentations during the last day possible? I've try to get rid of it, but I still has a lot of work to do. Wish me luck, I am going to need it a lot.
Going back to the topic - I have a facebook addiction. I've tried to fight it but it gets rather difficult when you're the administrator of a few huge groups on the website. I manage though - it doesn't affect my life as badly as some addictions can.
Besides nose-picking, the worst habit of mine is probably playing online games, mostly League of Legends. I tried to get rid of it but usually I go back to it after few months, sometimes even a year. It's quite difficult to quit it since a lot of my friends play it and it's sometimes fun.
2. My worst habit is cheek/lip biting.
3. Yea, of course. I started to chew gum a lot and it really helps, but sometimes I forget about it, what makes me do that again.
This video provides a very interesting approach to overcome you own habits. It's really helpful and it seems to me there is in fact one rule to behave when you know you are about to enter your habit loop. I thought it takes more time and energy to overcome the habit but it appears you can do it every day with every habit using a simple mind trick.
Nowadays facebook allows for much more than just chatting with your friends. It also allows personalized shopping, as well as logging in to your Fb account on multiple domains. I'm not hooked on FB chat, and I do not need to use other chat apps. My worst habit is watching tv series. If I start, I have to watch at least a few episodes until I fall asleep while watching.
If we are on the subject of bad habits - this what I would like to change is eating a lot of unhealthy food. I once took care of my diet and used to be careful about consuming various meals, but as the new obligations appeared, I neglected this habit. Maybe after finishing this school I will start to eat healthy again :)
I would say my worst habit is procrastination. I can't get rid of it. I've tried doing my work much earlier before deadline but eventually I always end up finishing most of it just before the deadline.
In my opinion my worst habit it's going to bed lately. I love lay in bed and do stupi things like watching series or playing games. It only take my time instead go sleep. I tried to start sleep more but then i had a feeling that i don't have a time in my live to "do nothing". Maybe one day i will change it.
Another bad habbit I had for years was nails biting. I know, gross. I started doing a manicure reguarly and stopped biting the nails not to ruin something that I had spent quite a lot of time on ant this was I was able to brak the bad habbit.
Basically, I have a lot of habits. Some of them are worse and some are funny. It seems to me, that my the worst habit is biting my nails. This is a terrible habit that I can not get rid of. Sometimes I do not do it for a few days but then it comes back again - usually in stressful situations. Maybe I should invest in a spider fidget. I guess I'll have to invest in a fidget spinner in the near future. Maybe I'll be able to stop doing it. Keep your fingers crossed for me.