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by maneesh 1628 days ago
When I'm about to travel or no I'm about to go through some experience that is likely to break my habit loops, are usually set a monetary bed with a friend. I call this the bet switch mechanism: By setting up bet and being held accountable, I'm able to change the way my brain thinks about the habit and always stick through over the critical period of environment change.

I wrote about it a long time ago on my old blog when I first started using it, and dug up the link. Sorry for broken images, etc:

https://hackthesystem.com/blog/the-bet-switch-mechanism-the-...