英文共读 | Atomic Habits （3）

 Many people begin the process of changing their habit by focusing on what they want to achieve. This leads us to outcome-based habits. The alternative is to build identity-based habits. With this approach, we start by focusing on who we wish to become.

小编说：

  许多人在改变习惯的过程中，首先关注他们想要实现的目标。这导致我们养成以结果为基础的习惯。但是这种效果不会持续多久，因为一旦实现目标，我们就会回到原来的生活模式。

  另一种选择是建立基于身份的习惯。通过这种方法，我们开始关注我们希望成为什么样的人。

  The first layer is changing your outcomes. This level is concerned with changing your results; (losing weight, publishing a book, winning a championship. Most of the goals you set are associated with this level of change.

    The second layer is changing your process. This level is concerned with changing your habits and systems: implementing a new routine at the gym, decluttering your desk for better workflow, developing a meditation practice. Most of the habits you build are associated with this level.

  The third and deepest layer is changing your identity. This level is concerned with changing your beliefs: your worldview, your self-image, your judgments about yourself and others. Most of the beliefs, assumptions, and biases you hold are associated with this level.

   Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe.

  如果我们要以identity-based体系去改变自己，那情况如下：

-The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.

- The goal is not to run a marathon, the goal is to become a runner.

• The goal is not to learn an instrument, the goal is to become a musician.

  The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.

  New identities require new evidence. If you keep casting the same votes you've always cast, you're going to get the same results you've always had. If nothing changes, nothing is going to change.

小编说：

   新的自我需要有新的证据支撑。想要改变自我需要不断强化新的行动，不然的话，你就一直会停留在原地，得到相同的结果。

1. Decide the type of person you want to be.

2. Prove it to yourself with small wins.

  The two-step process to changing your identity associated with that behavior. In fact, the word identity was originally derived from the Latin words essentitas, which means being, and identidem, which means repeatedly. Your identity is literally your "repeated beingness."

  Whatever your identity is right now, you only believe it because you have proof of it. If you go to church every Sunday for twenty years, you have evidence that you are religious. If you study biology for one hour every night, you have evidence that you are studious. If you go to the gym even when it's snowing, you have evidence that you are committed to fitness. The more evidence you have for a belief, the more strongly you will believe it.

  As you repeat these actions, however, the evidence accumulates and your self-image begins to change. The effect of one-off experiences tends to fade away while the effect of habits gets reinforced with time, which means your habits contribute most of the evidence that shapes your identity.

  In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.

小编说：

  词语identity是来自于拉丁语essentitas，意思是持续的重复，你的身份就是你的“重复存在的习惯和行为”。无论你现在的身份是什么，因为你有证据支撑，你才会去相信这个身份的存在。然而，当你重复这些新的行为时，证据积累起来，你的自我形象才会开始改变。