Change is hard. New Year's resolutions almost always fail. But at The Energy Project,
we have developed a way of making changes that has proved remarkably
powerful and enduring, both in my own life and for the corporate clients
to whom we teach it.
Our method is grounded in the recognition that human being are
creatures of habit. Fully 95 percent of our behaviors are habitual, or
occur in response to a strong external stimulus. Only 5 percent of our choices are consciously self-selected.
In 1911, the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead intuited what
researchers would confirm nearly a century later. "It is a profoundly
erroneous truism," he wrote, "that we should cultivate the habit of
thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is
the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important
operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
