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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1281. This simple equation reveals how habits shape your health, happiness, and wealth.

By James Clear, with NearAndFar.com, and I'm just a mall like your very own personal narrator.

I read to you from some of the best blogs in the world every day.

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And with that, I'll keep this intro short. So let's get right to it and continue optimizing your life.

This simple equation reveals how habits shape your health, happiness, and wealth.

By James Clear, with NearAndFar.com.

In 1936, a man named Kurt Lewin wrote a simple equation that changed the way we think about habits and human behavior.

The equation makes the following statement. Behavior is a function of the person in their environment.

Now in today's Lewin's equation, this tiny expression contains most of what you need to know about building good habits, breaking bad ones, and making progress in your life.

Let's talk about what we can learn from Lewin's equation and how to apply these ideas to master the habits that shape your health, happiness, and wealth.

What drives our behavior?

Before Lewin's equation became famous, most experts believed that a person's habits and actions were result of the type of person they were, not the environment they were in at the time.

You can still find many examples of this belief today. For instance, if you struggle to stick to a diet, you might say, I just don't have any willpower.

Or if you can't seem to finish that big project like writing a book, you might say, I'm a great starter, but a lousy finisher.

These statements imply that our habits and actions are determined by some set of characteristics that we are born with, that our habits are fixed based on who we are.

Lewin, however, said something different. He said that it is not just your personal characteristics, but also your environment that drives your behavior.

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