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Built on how habits
actually form.

Behaviour science, neuroscience and the ideas made famous by James Clear’s Atomic Habits, turned into an app you just talk to. Every part of mode:Becoming comes from research on what makes change stick.

People in sunny everyday moments: reading with tea, stretching on a balcony, laughing into a phone in a garden
66days
The median time it took a new daily habit to feel automatic. Missing a single day didn’t undo it.
Lally and colleagues, University College London, 2010
43%
Of everyday actions are habits, done in the same place, almost every day, without much thought.
Wood, Quinn and Kashy, 2002
94studies
Planning when and where you’ll act (“after dinner, I’ll read”) reliably helps people follow through.
Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006

The habit loop, done for you

Every habit runs on the same four steps. Atomic Habits turns them into four laws. Mo builds each one in.

  1. 1CueMake it obvious

    Each habit is tied to a moment you already have, like “after dinner”, with a reminder at your best time.

  2. 2CravingMake it attractive

    You start from who you want to become, so every habit means something to you.

  3. 3ResponseMake it easy

    A two-minute version for hard days, and no forms: you just say what you did.

  4. 4RewardMake it satisfying

    Mo logs it the moment you say it. Streaks, badges and your progress show up straight away.

Neuroscience

Your brain’s autopilot

Repeat an action in the same situation and the basal ganglia take over, so it stops needing willpower. Rewards that land right away teach the brain fastest, which is why Mo logs your wins on the spot.

Ann Graybiel, MITWolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge

Identity

Become who you said

People keep habits that fit who they believe they are. You tell Mo who you’re becoming, and every tick is a small vote for that person.

Identity-based habits, Atomic HabitsIdentity-based motivation, Daphna Oyserman, USC

Breaking habits

Ride out the urge

Cravings rise, peak and pass within minutes. When one hits, Help me now breathes you through it instead of asking you to white-knuckle it.

Urge surfingG. Alan Marlatt, University of Washington

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mode:Becoming puts published research into practice. It isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by James Clear, his publisher, or the researchers and institutions named here.