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10 Post author: XFrequentist 03 September 2013 01:58AM

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Comment author: XFrequentist 04 September 2013 03:28:41PM 0 points [-]

One useful thing is to start with the tinyest habit possible, and not worry about optimality for the habit forming period.

Yup. The Tiny Habits program I linked in the post is built around this approach. 2 seconds rather than 2 minutes, but same idea.