The myth is very popular that you can get any habit if you repeat some action 21 days. We checked whether this is really so.
About the formation of new habits in three weeks write And take off videoBloggers, such information is on sites for coach and business trainers, authors books in self -development They promisethat in 21 days the reader will be able to change his life. This topic is devoted to many articles In magazines about psychology, Healthy lifestyle And sports, on popular science Portals.
Each of us from time to time thinks that it would be nice to start running in the morning, do exercises or go to bed early. But how to make it not to be the result of efforts, but is a habit? They say that for this you need to repeat a specific action 21 days, and then we will begin to perform it on the machine. But where did this number come from? And if it is true, why does the formation of a habit take just so much time?
In 1960, a plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz published a book "Psycho -Kibernetics". In it, he spoke about his observations of patients and noted that a person needs at least 21 days to accept a new image of himself-after plastic surgery or amputation of any part of the body. Most likely, it was from there that the extremely common myth that any habit can be developed in 21 days. It is worth noting that Maxwell did not conduct any large-scale research, tests or experiments, he just described his observations. And, most importantly, he believed that people need “at least” so much time. But subsequently, the clarification that this is the minimum possible, and not at all the optimal and not accurate time, was somehow lost, and this statement has already acquired popularity in a categorical wording of 21 days, for which any habit can be brought up in itself.
