Respondent Report
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Habits provide a way to understand our behavior at a foundational level. We can divide habits into two broad categories: productive and counterproductive. Productive habits serve us, while counterproductive habits do not. (Counterproductive habits likely served us at some point, but no longer offer much value.) Both kinds of habits are based on the same four activating emotions—drive, care, fear, and hope. Productive habits use these activating emotions to help us pursue and secure opportunities while avoiding and resolving problems. Counterproductive habits, on the other hand, misappropriate these emotions to squander opportunities and permit negative outcomes.
Working with habits requires us to identify the activating emotions and make a conscious choice about how to proceed — And with that understanding comes an opportunity to change behaviors we find counterproductive, as well as reinforce and strengthen behaviors that serve us.
