Day 506 Record Keeping
Day 475 Fixed Meditation (79)
Day 421 Bodyweight Exercise (2 typewriter pushups - 79)
Day 348 Writing (editing - 67)
Day 521 Eating (80)
Great sleep, great wakeup. Traveled from Albuquerque to Houston. Missed one travel day, and the next day since I was exhausted. Actually did most of my habits yesterday except writing. Might have gotten to 4th jhana.
Day 89 Record Keeping SRHI = 67
Day 57 Fixed Meditation SRHI = 75
Day 3 Burpee SRHI= 31
Day 103 Eating SRHI = 58 - Failed to do yesterday
Bad night sleep, great wakeup.
A Habit Equation
I’ve been flailing around the internet trying to get help with mathematics in order to fully express my ideas on habit formation in an equation and graph form.
So far I’ve got graphs of SRHI v Time. But I’m wondering where Endurance fits. Ideally I’d like to have a fully expressed equation - one that describes how long a habit takes, when you’d get into the “danger zone"
I’m guessing this would have variables for the Total Time for the habit to manifest, Endurance, SRHI, and the time that has elapsed. I’m guessing there will have to be a coefficient or constant…I don’t know what this would be - for individual Endurance and the willpower required for a given habit on changing scale based on self report indexes. Like how there are books with friction numbers for different surfaces.
Initially I thought that Endurance would act like velocity - Willpower across Time, but now I’m not so sure.
Coursera Stat Course
In my flailing I found another course on Coursera called "Experimentation for Improvement” which sounds right up my alley. It uses statistics to efficiently use experimentation - so instead of just changing one variable, which can be very slow, you speed up the process. Well, changing one variable was just what I had in mind for this project - the thought that there is a better way blows my mind. I’ve signed up for the course, which starts in early July, and I think it will really help me out, even though it’s not what I need to make sense of my data and create a habit equation.
Day 75 Record Keeping SRHI = 58
Day 43 Fixed Meditation SRHI = 70
Day 4 Walking SRHI=12
Horrible sleep, great wakeup.
Just moved into a new neighborhood yesterday. The hectic nature of packing belongings and cleaning interfered with my record keeping - I ended up skipping two days. But my fixed meditation remained rock solid.
There are three thoughts I have about this.
One, a possibility is that older habits need to be periodically “recharged” to maintain their consistency. And this can be done as a cycle as part of a larger training program to prevent lapses like this. And that is the goal of this whole project - to create a well developed habit forming program.
A second possibility is that the lifecycle of a habit is larger than just a race to get to the the 70’s in the SRHI scale. It could be that there is another period further along where numbers dip because of changing circumstances or just a lack of energy.
Thirdly, this makes me question aspects of the SRHI - if you’ve got to the 70’s you’ve got a pretty strong habit - the only reason you wouldn’t continue to be consistent would be for things that are perhaps missing - Perhaps questions should be added regarding still doing a task when your conditions have changed. Or still doing a task when there are stumbling blocks along the way.