Habit formation involves complexities that affect success in building habits. Making a habit enjoyable can backfire in the short term, as adding variety reduces its automaticity, making consistency harder. However, the absence of variety can lead to monotony. Understanding these opposing forces through self-observation helps in habit design. In certain instances, adding variety may be necessary to increase long-term resilience by providing options and flexibility, even if it reduces automaticity temporarily.
Adding variety to your habit can make it more enjoyable. When a habit is more enjoyable, it can help us be more consistent.
Adding variety to a habit makes it less automatic, which can make being consistent harder.
Sometimes you'll need extra variety to combat monotony or rigidity, even at the cost of your habit becoming less automatic.
Adding variety to your habits will often increase their resilience in the long term, by giving you more options and flexibility.
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