The Key Habit

Glossary

Ritual

Basis
A practice
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The ritual is the sequence of small moves between the urge and the act: closing the door, opening the tab, the search, the scrolling. It is where the decision is really made, several minutes before anything you would call the act, and it is the easiest beat of the loop to break because each move is small and visible.


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Cue

Whatever starts the loop: a feeling, a time, a place, a screen. Rarely sexual; usually a state you want to leave.

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