Do you have decoy habits? Gretchen Rubin writes
Decoy habits are harmful, I think, because they allow us to pretend to have certain aims or values that we don’t really have. But by voicing the decoy, by saying, “I plan to start exercising,” he avoided acknowledging his true intentions.
A decoy habit is a habit that a person claims to want to adopt—but really doesn’t intend to do. Often, decoy habits reflect other people’s values or priorities.
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