It would seem that if we wanted to make a big change in our lives then we would have to do something really big. But, in his TED Talk video Forget Big Change, Start With a Tiny Habit, behavioralist BJ Fogg suggests that this approach does not work.

Our lives actually get off track not by making a single bad decision but by slowly getting into bad habits. So the solution would be too slowly start developing new habits. He calls this the Blue Path and it is the only approach that has shown to have long lasting effects.

It is not that we don't know how to do the right thing, we just haven't made it a habit yet. For example, flossing our teeth. It is not a matter of not knowing how. It is that it has never become a habit like brushing our teeth. The Buddha also took the same approach, he did not try to change human nature. Instead he only tried to give us new practices that are easy to do until they become an effortless habit.

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