Habits habits habits. Someone doesn't build a skill overnight. Small decisions of your past add up to who you are today. Start with micro habits and build them up slowly. Life seems to be a weird cumulative momentum of good vs bad habits. Build awareness of your current habits.
Meta-cognition.. How does memory and learning even work? How does the brain operate?
Attention and intention.. The better attention you have then the better you can focus to build habits. The more awareness you have of where your attention is the better you can focus intention.
Energy.. Understand how much energy you have. If you're always tired then it's hard to even get focused or even think clearly. Food/water, exercise/stretch, and sleep.
If you have certain sleeping habits then that's one problem. If you have certain eatting habits then that can be a problem. If you have certain habits of not exercising then it only gets worse.
What about addictions vs habits?
What addictions do you have for coping with life?
I've heard beeminder is a good way to help with building habits. Just start slow.
Even with typing it takes steps to get fast. Getting in a state flow with the process. Focusing not too much on the outcome but more focus on the process.
In the military they start off with a few small habits. Doing push-ups then raise the temperature. Basically "boot camp" is "habit camp". Small habits. Making your bed in the morning. Folding clothes. Standing up tall. Then slowly cleaning the whole room. Becoming more and more organized. Seeing your life as systems.
Life systems of thinking. Giving all the items in your life a purpose to become more efficient with where you allocate your energy. The more you own it becomes more bogging on the working memory of the mind.
In chess it's about being flexable with your memory. Being able to be a strategic thinker. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Moving slow builds a momentum. Playing hundreds of games you build speed. Playing too fast will cause mistakes. Play at a comfortable speed.
