Behavior is shaped by environment more than willpower; design spaces to make good habits obvious and bad habits invisible.
To read more and scroll less: place books in every room, delete social media apps from your phone (forcing browser access), designate a 'reading chair' where you never use your phone. The environment does the heavy lifting instead of willpower.
Everyone has equal control over their environment, when many people (those in poverty, living with others, in open offices) have limited ability to design their spaces.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Strategically adding or removing small obstacles to make desired behaviors easier and undesired behaviors harder.
Humans naturally gravitate toward the option requiring the least work; design habits to be the path of least resistance.
Habits are triggered by context (location, time, preceding event, emotional state) rather than abstract intentions.
Strategically adding or removing small obstacles to make desired behaviors easier and undesired behaviors harder.
Humans naturally gravitate toward the option requiring the least work; design habits to be the path of least resistance.