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05 Apr 2024 14:54

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Old habits die hard but what about those which develop later in life?

There is a saying that old habits die hard which means that people develop some habits since their childhood or early young age and that become a part of their personality and even if they wanted to get rid of them it becomes very difficult to do so. However, experts suggest that if there is a will and desire for sustained efforts even old habits can be changed.
But what about the habits picked up in the recent past? There are many habits that people develop later in their lives like mobile addiction, too much socialising, wasting time with friends and colleagues after getting a job, too many parties, etc. Can't we change them if we desire so? What are your experiences?

#778111

05 Apr 2024 15:56

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A habit is something very difficult to discontinue. I got habituated to drinking coffee daily in the morning. By any chance, if I miss that cup of coffee in the morning, I get a headache. Such habits are very difficult to give up. But if we wish to give up we can do it by making some alternatives. Habits are habits. An old or new habit is a habit only. It is very difficult to give them up.
Any habit irrespective of old or new, we can forget if we want to forget. My Professor under whom I did my PhD was a chain smoker during his student days. But he stopped smoking completely. He told me he could do it by taking a strong decision to stop and instead of stopping abruptly, by reducing numbers day by day. From the day he started reducing the numbers within 6 months he stopped completely and later on he never touched it.

drrao
always confident

#778112

05 Apr 2024 16:16

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Habits are integral part of our lives and when it comes to removing them, then a big question mark comes - how to do it? The method advocated by Dr Rao is effective in some cases and many people have succeeded in getting rid of some of their habits in a gradual way. But only the determined can get such results. Most of us fail in that miserably.
I remember a saying that we all are slaves of our habits. I agree fully with that.
It is said that for passing our time or enjoying the life or divert our minds from stress we should engage in something and that something then forms in shape of a habit. I remember one of our senior officers, when I was in a job, asked everyone to break for a cup of tea whenever we could not solve a problem. He took this diversion as a habit and found that it worked many times and after sitting again solutions could be found.
In essence, habits are habits and changing them is not so easy. They become a part of us.

Knowledge is power.

#778123

05 Apr 2024 19:17

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When something becomes a habit in our life and we want to get rid of it. It becomes difficult for us to do so unless we have a strong will.

There will be lots of people in our life who will suggest how to get rid of addiction but they are just good advisors they themselves also may not be able to get rid of them if they also have them.

I am a smoker and because of my low will power I am not able to quit it. Like me there are several people who can't and I know once they get some thing severe in their life they won't be able to do so. It's essential to have a strong will power to get rid of any habit.

Sanjeev

" The two most important days in your life are the day when you are born and the day you find out why? "
– Mark Twain

#778139

05 Apr 2024 23:48

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I read your post and it really got me thinking, you know? It's like, we always hear about how hard it is to change old habits, like they're stuck with us for life. But what about the new ones we pick up along the way? Like, I've been noticing I spend way too much time on my phone lately, and it's like, can I really change that if I want to?

I guess what I'm trying to say is, your post hit home for me. It's got me wondering if we can break these newer habits too, you know? Like, maybe if we really want to change, we can do it, no matter when we picked up those habits. But I'm curious to hear what others think and what their experiences have been.

So, thanks for bringing this up, man. It's got me thinking about making some changes in my own life.

Regards,

Sunil

#778140

06 Apr 2024 07:15

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The response by Sunil at #778139 is motivating me to differentiate between the old die hard habits to that of recently acquired. From a neurobiological point of view if the old habits are sitting deep in our minds then they will be much stubborn if one tried to dig out and remove them from there. On the other hand the new ones or recently acquired have yet to make a permanent firm place for them in our minds and that is the time when one can get rid of them probably with less efforts.
As an example a few months back I found that my tea intake was significantly increased and it started to disturb my eating schedules. I tried to control it and within a few days I went back to my normal tea intake. At the same time I have an old habit of taking good amount of water while taking food and I was advised to stop that and take water after some time but I am still struggling to change that and most of the times I forget to do so. I do not know how much of this differentiating analysis is correct but there seems to be a difference in tackling the old habits and recently acquired.

Knowledge is power.

Old habits die hard but what about those which develop later in life?

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