Questão 25 - UNIVESP 2024

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JANUARY 24, 2024
How Long Does It Really Take to Form a Habit?
There’s a myth that it takes 21 days to form a habit. Experts explain why it might take some people longer–or shorter
BY JOCELYN SOLIS-MOREIRA

    Waking up at the crack of dawn and going for a run might feel intimidating when you start trying to make it a habit.
Weaving a signifi cant new activity such as this into your regular routine obviously takes determination and time–but
how much time is really needed to make that habit stick?
    One popular idea suggests that it takes 21 days to solidify a habit. A three-week time frame might sound easily
reachable to someone making a resolution on New Year’s Day, when people tend to feel extra motivated to start a
new habit or kick an old one, says Colin Camerer, a behavioral economist at the California Institute of Technology
who has conducted research on habit formation. Yet every January 21 very few people can boast that they have
kept their resolutions. One survey showed that only 9 percent of people actually stuck to their goals in 2023.
    Everyone has a unique habit-building timeline–and no matter how long it is for any individual, repetition is the key
to making it work, explains Phillippa Lally, a senior lecturer in psychology and the co-director of the Habit Application
and Theory group at the University of Surrey in England. Both Lally and Camerer suggest various individualized ways
to reinforce healthy behaviors and to eventually turn a wholesome task into an unconscious habit.

https://tinyurl.com/e8rjumxe Acesso em: 24.01.2024. Adaptado.

De acordo com o texto, para uma ação se tornar um hábito inconsciente deve-se