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Building new habits

培养新习惯

Find your motivation

找到你的动机

Habits are far more likely to succeed if they are based on intrinsic motivation, rather than extrinsic motivation. The difference between the two is that intrinsic motivation is internal, while extrinsic motivation is external. For example, perhaps you want to create a new exercise habit. An intrinsic motivation for doing this might be wanting to be healthy (an internal motivation that just concerns yourself). An extrinsic motivation might be wanting to lose weight so that other people will perceive you as more attractive (an external motivation that is based on the perceptions and judgments of others).

如果习惯是基于你的内在动机而不是外在动机，那它们更有可能会成功养成。内在动机和外在动机的区别在于，内在动机是来自内部的，外在动机是来自外部的。例如，也许你想养成锻炼身体的习惯。内在动机可能是保持健康（内在动机只考虑自己）。外在动机可能是你想减肥，这样其他人就会觉得你更有吸引力。（外在动机是基于他人的看法和意见。）

To give yourself the best chance of creating a sustainable habit, take a good, long look at your motives before you even start working on this new activity. You might find that your motivation is intrinsic to begin with (great!), that you need to shift your thinking slightly, or notice that this particular habit is something you’re doing for someone else, rather than for yourself.

要想养成一个新的习惯并坚持下来，在开始这项新活动前先好好想想自己的动机。你可能会发现自己的动机是内在的（太棒了！），或你需要稍微调整一下自己的思想，或注意到这个习惯是你为别人养成的，而不是为你自己。

Even if you realise that you’re engaging in this particular habit for someone else, that doesn’t mean you have to ditch the habit entirely, it just means that you need to think more about whether you have a personal, intrinsic motivation you can use to sustain the habit in the long term.

即使你意识到你是为别人养成这个习惯的，这并不意味着你需要完全放弃这个习惯，这仅仅表明你需要进一步思考，看看自己是否有可以利用的个人的、内在的动机来长期地维持这一习惯。

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