This book shows some great ways to be less mindful and still good.   The power of habit is all about how people get into habits, how they take over, and how they are structured.  The habit is composed of 3 parts, the trigger, the action, and the reward.  Knowing about how these 3 are a part of your habit will help in changing the habit.  Triggers are something you try to recognize, not change.  This is the same with the reward, just recognize the reward.  In the middle of the habit change the action, so that the trigger can tell you when to do it and so that it produces the expected reward.  This is a somewhat paradoxical way of mindfully being unmindful.  As much as I don’t really buy into the whole end state of the Buddhist teaching, the practice of mindfulness has been nagging at me more and more.  The power of habit makes unmindfulness mindful, and is something that can be leveraged when our willpower is low.

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