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The Zettelkasten or slip-box is a method to take notes.
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Change the environment to obtain what you want
In the book How to take smart notes the author cites the professor in behaviour economics Richard Thaler that in one of his books argues that:
- The environment can be changed.
- The environment may impede us to make the habits necessary to obtain what we want.
- For example, if you want to make the habit to eat healthy and you have chips and chocolate in your kitchen, it is more difficult to eat healthy. If you do not have chips and chocolate in your kitchen is instead simpler. In the second case the environment is helping you to modifying your behaviour and reaching your goals.
- Changing the environment reducing the friction that impede us to obtain what we want, increase the likelihood to obtain what we want.
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- What is the environment
- Why changing the environment influence behaviour
- How the environment can be changed
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- How to take smart notes | 2017 | Sönke Ahrens
Environment in Behaviour context
How the environment can be changed
The environment can be changed changing the things you interact with. Some factors that can be changed to change the environment are:
- Location where the things are or you do something
- Example to reduce the friction to make a positive habit:
- Arrange the items necessary for forming a habit within easy reach. For instance, if you aim to develop a habit of running after work, place your running shoes near the exit door. This way, when you return tired from work, you won’t waste time searching for your running shoes.
- Example to increase the friction to avoid a negative habit:
- Position the items associated with unwanted habits out of reach and less accessible. For example, if you’re trying to break the habit of eating chips after work, store the chips in a closed cupboard, or even better, do not purchase them.
- Example to reduce the friction to make a positive habit:
- Time when you do something
- People who you interact with
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Principles of Getting Things Done
In the book How to take smart notes the author claims that the principles of the technique Getting Things Done is:
- to collect everything we have to do in one place
- process it in standardised way
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- How to take smart notes | 2017 | Sönke Ahrens