I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane physical tasks for even longer. (My superpower, if I have one, is the ability to perform mindless manual labor for hours.)
But I’m also prone to rabbit-holing. I can look for a research study to support a premise, shift to finding a quote from someone famous to back it up … and somehow find myself watching Anatoly prank unwitting gym-goers.
Did I decide to watch a silly video? Yes and no.
While we may think we make a lot of decisions throughout the day (and we do), we don’t make nearly as many as we think. A study published in Society for Personality and Social Psychology shows approximately 40 percent of the things we do aren’t based on decisions.
Instead, they’re habits.
And some, like finding myself watching videos I didn’t intend to watch, are bad habits. Continue here....
-- Jeff Haden
