The ObservatoryThe habit profile
Six scales that show where your habits are strong and where they leak
How it works
- The four legs of a habitRate
- Signal, reward and identityRateWrite
A habit that holds rarely depends on willpower alone. It rests on four legs: that you do it regularly, that you come back quickly when it breaks, that it doesn’t take much resistance to get started, and that the signal r …
Self-assessment in 2 steps, about 4 minutes. Doing it is part of Premium, which you try free for 7 days with no card. With Premium your answers are saved so you can pick up where you left off and look back at what you wrote.
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Why does it work?
The self-assessment is a structured self-reflection, not a validated instrument. The division into cue, routine and reward (the habit loop), and the principle that friction shapes behavior more than intention, come from modern habit research (Wood & Rünger, Annual Review of Psychology, 2016).
Account, your first assessment with the hexagon and one new measurement every quarter are free. The rest is part of Premium: SEK 99 a month or SEK 699 a year, VAT included.
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