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Upon reflection on my free inquiry project, I can’t help but notice how far I’ve strayed. I started with an unassuming book, Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, and ran wild with the subject matter. My earlier posts are more focused on the content of the book but my more …
Coding Frustration… Animating changes to a function? Animating the movement of text is one thing… This exercise in coding is characterized by 3 key developments. Animating the movement of text was easy enough, but animating the movement of functions is another beast entirely. In this scene, I constructed a cosine …
Coding hasn’t become a habit for me yet…. But maybe something else has. I began this venture with the aim of reducing the amount of willpower required to tough through the learning process. Applying a strategy of preemptive reward to ease the burden on willpower, alluded to in Power of …
Applying Habit to my Learning How can I apply the knowledge of habit to achieve my goals? I’ve learned quite a lot about habits these past weeks. The Power of Habit taught me about the anatomy of habits and discussed how it can alleviate the need for willpower. As well, …
Chapter 5 of The Power of Habit applies heavily to the field of education. It discusses the development of a man named Travis who had dropped out of high school. His childhood was defined by a heroin addict for a father and relentless bullying in school. By the time he …
Learning about habits has been an exciting experience, and learning about the limitations of designing habits has been a humbling one. Undoubtedly, I need to refine my awareness of habits and the skills required to overwrite them. It has been difficult enough to work with habits for myself, let alone …
In hindsight, I should have seen this coming. I felt that the new wake-up habit I had engineered would be solidified after more than a week of use. It was starting to feel somewhat autonomous, so I thought I could return my alarm to its previous resting place. This morning …
So much of what we do is governed by subconscious interactions in our brains. While reading The Power of Habit, I’m becoming aware of so many actions left to my subconscious, as well as what is compelling my subconscious. The focus of this reflection is currently my morning routine. I …
Where to begin? What to do? I’m initiating this blog in a state of timorous hesitancy. I haven’t the faintest clue how to blog. I don’t know the etiquette, much less the tools at my disposal. I’m unsure as to where this journey of inquiry will take me, but I …