Habits and behaviour
AskNex's behaviour sources explain the same loop from three angles: the mechanics of habit, the design of environments, and the biases that make the wrong choice feel reasonable in the moment. Together they cover starting, sustaining and stopping.
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Problems in this topic
The recurring situations AskNex has mapped here. Each opens an orientation built from the books below.
The sources
The books AskNex has read and mapped for this topic, in editorial order.
Ideas that recur
The concepts the most books in this topic contribute to. Where several sources meet is where the arguments happen.
Habit formation
Behaviour that persists because it is cued and repeated, not decided.
Environment design
Changing the conditions around a behaviour beats changing intent.
Cognitive bias
Fast intuitive judgement is efficient and predictably wrong in known ways.
Loss aversion
Losses register more heavily than equivalent gains, distorting risk-taking.
Deciding under uncertainty
Choosing well when information is incomplete and reversible bets are cheap.
Identity change
Durable behaviour follows a changed self-description, not a target.
Thinking in probabilities
Judging a decision by its expected value over a series, not by the outcome of one instance.
Risk and uncertainty
How people mis-estimate downside, and what survivable plans look like.
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