The Power Of Habit Analysis

In the book “The Power of Habit” Author Charles Duhigg explains, how a habit forms? An action or a move that takes place on our daily routine again and again is called habit. A habit is created of a cue, a cue is physical sense that makes our brain to follow an action; Routine is an action of doing something; and reward is the achievement of our actions. For instance, for a smoker the cue is pack of cigarettes, smoking is the routine, and the reward is the pleasure the he takes for smoking. Having said that, I have a few habits which are, eating my nails, and playing games. After reading “The Power of Habit”, I decided to incorporate Duhigg’s ideas about habit with my own habit of playing games, and will try to change it by knowing and understanding the habit loop, craving, golden rule of habit change,
I only think about the soft pillows, and want to lay on the comfortable couches. As I see the pillows and the couches; I start sleeping on it. However, after a few days it got changed. Instead of sleeping, I started playing game. I didn’t knew that my brain created a habit, until I started reading “The Power of Habit”. Although, Duhigg author of The Power of Habit explains, that “Habit emerge without our permission” 26. This quote describes that a habit takes place without informing us for instance, when I come back to home from my work place, and I started playing game. This action over time becomes a habit; for me it is just a normal activity, but in reality my brain pattern a habit loop. The habit loop is a structure of an action which is made of a cue, routine, and reward. The cue for my habit is an emotional state which tiger the habit to accrue, and the routine is simple, coming from work, taking off my work dress code, and start playing game. The reward for my habit is the engram or the new weapons that I get from the game. This process, cue, routine, and reward formed a habit in my