Why do habits always give up halfway? There is no breakthrough to the tipping point, and it takes time to succeed

How long will the new habit last?

This is the 03rd article of the book "Controlling Habits", which is intensively read and shared.

We all know to develop good habits, but why are we so hard to develop and always give up halfway?

I don't know if you have found that in the process of cultivating habits, there is a long time when you can't feel the influence of habits.

When I was in high school, I had a very poor physique and often had colds, because I was born with enlarged tonsils, and almost every time I had a cold, it would cause inflammation of the tonsils, and even suppuration in severe cases. Often take medicine, the body also has drug resistance, the old can not be cured. Every cold is very serious, it takes more than ten days to get better, sometimes even dragging on for a month. Every two or three months, I will catch a cold, which has affected my study life.

When I went to college abroad, my parents were particularly worried about my body.

Listen to a doctor who said that insisting on taking cold baths can enhance physical fitness and prevent colds.

I seemed to have obtained the secret book, so I took a cold shower every day from the beginning of my freshman year until the winter vacation, and I washed it every day when it snowed.

However, that semester, I still had three colds, as if there was no effect, I wanted to give up several times, but thinking about the pain of the cold, thinking that this was the method given by the doctor, thinking that the snow had been washed, so it was a pity to give up, so I gritted my teeth and continued to insist.

In the second semester, I only had a cold, and I found that it seemed to have some effect. In the next three years of college, I got two colds.

Up to now, so many years have passed, even if I don't take a cold shower every day, I rarely have a cold, only once in a few years.

After reading the book "Controlling Habits", I understood that when you start a new habit, there will be a long period of time to find that there is no change, this time is called the potential accumulation period, and you can only achieve great success if you break through the tipping point of the potential accumulation period.

Many times, we only see the great success of others overnight, but ignore the long process of accumulation before.

We need to know that in the persistence process of not seeing the change before the time, the efforts you have made have created today's great success.

Therefore, we must develop new good habits, we must persist, persist until we have passed the potential accumulation period, and break through the critical point, in order to see great success.