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I can forget a 3 month habit after not doing it once. Try again. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The problem is that it takes someone else to remind you to do the thing often enough and with enough impetus to make it a habit

Which will only last until the first time you're sick and can't, and then that habit is gone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I played guitar for 3 years until I cut the tip of my finger off with a mandolin. Literally haven't touched it since

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you haven't heard of Tony Iommi, he was (is?) the guitarist for Black Sabbath who cut two of his fingertips off, on his fretting hand, in some kind of shop accident at work.

Despite this, he popped on a couple of thimbles and proceeded to basically invent the power chord and was a pioneer of guitar riffage.

You only lost one, so you've already got one-up on him!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Django Reinhardt had pretty bad damage to his fretting hand too from a fire, and that dude shredded like no other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

like no other

Literally lol... Forced constraints and limitations are often a huge impetus for creating great art.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to paint and draw daily every day for 5 years. Then i tried 3d. Used to do it every day for 8 years. Then i tried programming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

programming
not even once

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

My phone does that for me. I use a habit tracker with undismissable notifications that take only a "Yes" or "No" answer (it's a bit more customizable, but this is how I use it), which helps keep me accountable for my habits.

Unfortunately, it's been almost 3 months for a habit that I'm trying to nail down and I still forget sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I've tried something like that.

But I'm unfortunately prone to leaving my phone in my bedroom, so it never works out

When I'm trying to habituate to something by myself, I usually do okay by setting up barriers. Can't do X because Y is in the way, so I handle Y, and eventually I'll usually just start doing Y as part of doing X, where X is something I want to do.

It takes a few weeks but it usually does work.