Your life isn’t chaotic — your habit code is outdated.

In this episode, we break down how habits are not a matter of discipline or motivation, but dopamine-driven loops your brain learned to repeat because they were familiar, predictable, and easy to access.

You’ll learn why your brain clings to habits that no longer serve you, how anticipation—not reward—keeps you stuck, and why trying to “just stop” a habit almost never works.

In this episode, we cover:

🧠 How cue–routine–reward loops actually work

🧠 Why dopamine spikes before the habit, not after

🧠 How anticipation hijacks your behavior

🧠 Why willpower fails when habit design succeeds

🧠 How to edit your habit code without burning yourself out

You don’t need a personality overhaul —

you need a system update.

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Sources Mentioned:

• ​ Duhigg, C. (2012) — The Power of Habit (cue–routine–reward framework)
• ​ Schultz, W. (1997) — Dopamine reward-prediction error research
• ​ Wood, W. & Neal, D. (2007) — Habit formation and automaticity
• ​ Merzenich, M. (2014) — Neuroplasticity and behavioral rewiring