Habits Map

I am an unrelenting evolutionary adaptation—whether you like it or not!

Navigate with your new Map of Content (MOC)

Connect your new Map of Content (MOC) with the the rest of your network of knowledge so you can navigate your notes near the speed of thought.

Enjoy the spatial constellation you created. Your MOCs will be meaningful to you.

Understanding Habits

• Defining a habit
• Habit formation provides an evolutionary advantage
• Habits carry a ton of hidden inertia
• The neural formation of habits is additive
  • The truest habit metaphors are additive
  • Ant pheromone trails act like potential habits

Use your MOCs for different purposes

• as a reference point in the future
• for final products (content creation)
• for the inherent joy the ideas provide

As you finish work on an area of interest, your MOC remains as a renewable summation of thought for Future You. An MOC is your easy access point back into the topic—whether that’s tomorrow or in ten years.

Designing Habits

• Understanding the habit cycle and habitual cues
  • How Atomic Habits fit into the conversation on habits
  • Resiliency Routines help regain a sense of control
  • Improving Micro Habits at the Point of Contact
• Small Wins foster a Sense of Control
• An asymptotic curve models the development of skills, strength, habits, and more
  • The mechanism for breaking through development plateaus

MOCs can easily continue to evolve over time

Around this callout is an assembly of the notes in some sort of formalized structure.

I have continued adding to this whenever it made sense.

Example of Habit Design

• Charting out habit cycles in my life circa 2013

Important Habits

Being able to adapt is an important habit
Important habits preserve mental clarity and a sense of control
Preparing for the next day is an important habit
Writing down daily goals in the morning is an important habit
Journaling in the morning is an important habit

Related Concepts

Feedback Loop, Like begets like
Cobwebs into Cables, Reps, Sense of Control
Natural Selection, Selfish Gene, Survival of the Fittest
Flywheel Effect, Use it or Lose it is a cool concept

Other Miscellaneous

• Words I’ve used to describe important habits
• Changing a habit is really about replacing a routine

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Finish the walkthrough: The 3 Phases of MOCs, a coda

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LYT Vision

Activate “LYT Vision” to resurface thoughts in context. When you twirl this open, it’s like you are putting on night vision goggles: you see things hidden in the shadows.

The main contextual queries I prefer are “unrequited” & “unmentioned” notes.

Unrequited notes

These notes point directly to this note. But this note doesn’t point back (yet).
This is the strongest contextual query.

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