Direction

​Once again I am back to what I am reading at the moment.  I apologise if you are not into this sort of thing, but Atomic Habits occupies a good bit of my thinking at the moment.  I notice the latest Audible ad features this book.  Again, while I set no book up as the Bible except the Bible, I am happy to get what I can where ever I can.
I have been quiet encouraged by what I have read in the latest chapter as it talks about something I feel I have practiced for the last little while.  It puts it way better than I could, but I see it as something I have been calling “Replacement Theory.”
The author talks about the 4 laws of behavioural change.  He acknowledges that his terminology comes from a book called “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg.  He says that human behaviour can be broken down to cue, craving, response and reward.
He proposes that creating a good habit is: make it obvious (cue), make it attractive (craving) make it easy (response) and make it satisfying (reward).  He states that to break bad habits the laws can be inverted.  Make it invisible (cue), make it unattractive (craving) make it difficult (response), make it unsatisfying (reward).
This to me is similar to replacement theory.  I have felt for a while that if I want something it is sometimes necessary to replace something to get it.  For example, I may want to be a really good marble player.  So I forgo half an hour of tv and spend it practicing marbles.  I have replaced tv watching with marble practice.
While I do not think there may be anything wrong with watching tv, there is if it prevents me from becoming what I want to become.  I choose to rework my schedule to accommodate what matters to me.
Like the author says about his laws, he would be foolish to imply they cover every human behaviour but as he also says, it is close.
To me intervention is necessary to set me on the forever road I want to go down, but gold is to be found in the right environment.