We've all seen the most popular habit tracking apps and behavior change apps out there

and they all track this one metric, the idea of streaks. You know what a streak is. It's how many times you've done a behavior every single day in a row without missing.

And streaks have long been seen as an effective way to drive motivation.

In fact, there is this common story out there that Seinfeld used to write a joke a day and cross off a day on the

calendar in order to be consistent and at some point it became about not wanting to break the chain.

But is any of this actually true?

Do Streaks actually help?

And what about Seinfeld himself saying

that that story isn't true?

Today on the show, I want to dive deeper

into the conversation around tracking streaks, why I believe it's actually not that effective

a way of improving behavior, and what I think we should be doing instead.

Stay tuned because this is tiny leaps.

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