Warp Speed Habits - Leveraging Neuroscience to Create Habits

The beginning of your quest, where you begin to commit yourself to design your destiny.

You will understand what drives the need for change, and potential areas of habit creation.

An introductory explanation of the dimensions you will travel to in your Warp Speed Habits quest.

A primer on habits from a psychological and neuroscience perspective, as well as in relation to Warp Speed and Warp Speed Habits.

Understand the quest you will undertake, as you assume different avatars in the execution of your voyages and missions, and document the conclusions in your workbook.

Introduction to Clark, who will accompany you throughout your one voyage and six missions as you assume the novice avatar and understand the scope of the journey you will undertake in this role.

Introduction to Albert, who will accompany you throughout your three voyages and seven missions, as you assume the scientist avatar and understand the scope of the scientific journey you will undertake in this role.

Introduction to Frida, who will accompany you throughout your two voyages and nine missions, as you assume the painter avatar and understand the scope of the strategic journey you will undertake in this role.

Introduction to Simon, who will accompany you throughout your three voyages and 20 missions, as you assume the maestro or maestra avatar and understand the scope of the tactical journey you will undertake in this role.

Introduction to Jean, who will accompany you throughout your one voyage and five missions, as you assume the architect avatar and understand the scope of the journey you will undertake in this role.

Introduction to Emma, who will accompany you throughout your one voyage and one mission, as you assume the learner avatar and understand the scope of the journey you will undertake in this role.

Sofia will summarize the voyages you will undertake as you assume your avatars.

At this stage, you will be introduced to Michael, your Habit Buddy throughout your quest. Michael will be sharing his outputs from his quest with you, reinforcing the need for you to document your missions in your workbook.

You are now ready to begin your first voyage. Sofia leaves you a final message before you assume your novice avatar.

As the novice, the objectives for your first voyage are:

• Understand how effective you currently are in creating habits.

• Understand what it will take to create habits successfully.

To succeed in achieving these objectives, you will carry out six missions.

If you are asked what the word “habit” means, what will you probably reply?

The concept of the components of habits was discovered by MIT researchers in the 1990s. These are the core of every habit and is based on a simple neurological loop. We'll look at these concepts through an example in this lesson.

You move through life believing you are an informed, rational, and conscious decision maker. Neuroscience, however, shows that many of the decisions and choices you make every day are based on your habits.

You will now review this aspect in this lesson.

How do habits impact behavioral change?

Does the brain work for or against you?

It is a paradox that the organ that helps you understand and guides your interaction with your world needs to be better comprehended. You will take the first steps to understand this complex organ that is your brain.

Review research results to understand whether your brain does in fact will an action before you are aware of it.

Begin to understand the strategic direction and tactical stage you will need to set.

Understand the strategic and tactical perspectives you will need to define.

What is a Habits Growth Mindset?

You may be unaware, but environmental context is an invisible force that helps create and maintain habits. Understand the different environmental contexts that impact your habits.

Understand what elements influence the time it takes to create habits.

As the novice, you have just successfully completed the first six exploratory missions in your voyage—Brain Science, Business Thinking, Habits Mindset, and Environmental Contexts. Recap on lessons learned.

You will understand that during the voyages as a scientist, you will execute missions that will allow you to assimilate knowledge of your brain, and understand the significant potential that you have to create habits and change behaviors, to learn and grow.

As the scientist, your objectives for this voyage are:

• Assimilate basic knowledge of your brain, the most complex organ in the universe.

• Become aware of the significant potential that you have to create habits and change behaviors, to learn and grow.

• Begin to understand why your brain resists change.

To achieve these objectives, you will need to execute four missions.

In this lesson, you come back to the question, “What does the word ‘habit’ mean?”

Habits form over an identifiable series of four stages along the Habits Formation Matrix. In this lesson, an overview of these stages will be shown.

To better understand the Habits Formation Matrix, imagine that you’ve just successfully learned a process that required the use of new application software. Review what happens along each of the four phases.

In this lesson, you will understand neurons—one of the key building blocks of your nervous system that runs throughout your body—and their fundamental contribution to habit formation.

Understand how complex chains in your central nervous system form networks that specialize in performing a myriad of specific tasks, including the fundamental role in building and changing habits.

It is, however, not the number of neurons that matters as much as the number and frequency of synaptic connections between them that make the brain amazing. You'll understand why in this lesson.

Many studies in neuropsychology have shown that experts who started learning their profession in childhood or who have had intensive training and practice present structural differences in their brains as compared to nonexperts. In this lesson, you will review a few examples.

In your second voyage as the scientist, your objectives are:

• Understand the different intricacies of your brain systems and how these operate in creating habits.

• Comprehend how these systems are interlinked and how they affect the creation of habits.

To achieve these objectives, you will need to execute one mission:

• Mission 11: A Balancing Act

You have an enormous transformative potential to learn, adapt, improve, and grow. Why, then, is it extremely challenging to build or change habits?

Understand how your risk analysis system or warning center functions and its governing foundation.

In this lesson, you will understand your Habits System, responsible for automatic thoughts and movements, and how it works wonders.

In this lesson, you will grasp essential information in relation to the reward system. You will review this subject in greater detail when you explore the reward and craving components of the Habits Quartet.

You have just successfully completed your second voyage as the scientist. In this lesson, you will recap your understanding of this voyage.

As the scientist, your objectives for this voyage are twofold:

- Reflect on the inner workings of your brain systems and their connection to your Identity System.

- Understand how your Identity System illusion and mindset affect the creation of habits.

To achieve these objectives, you will need to execute two missions.

Reflect on the inner workings of your different brain systems, before moving forward the the lesson on identity system illusion.

Understand the flawed perspectives of your identity system.