WTF is a micro-habit? Most of these items aren't even habits.
That's because you need a million micro-habits to make a single habit.
The general idea is that the habit is so simple/small, it’s trivial to implement. Contrast this against habits that require time, dedication, self-discipline or fundamental life changes.
- [0] https://hackernoon.com/micro-habits-changed-my-life-47f572bf...
Yes, successful formation of a habit often occurs when you start small. That isn't anything new. Read anything about how to start a habit, and you'll almost certainly find this recommendation.
Author talks about reading books, starting with just one page a night. Well, presumably the goal is to read more than one page a night, at what point does this stop being a micro-habit and start being a normal habit? Maybe that's hard to answer because they mean the exact same thing?
This type of "lets make up a buzzword, so centuries-old ideas sound like something fresh that I did" seems so self-aggrandizing and annoys the heck out of me.
“I’m blogging about habits - the small kind - and I want readers to know at a glance, let’s call them micro habits”.
I don’t love it, but I think I understand how it came to be.
> at what point does this stop being a micro-habit and start being a normal habit?
I think that’s also the unstated point behind “micro habits”. These things are achievable, and oh look, you’ve fully formed a useful habit: reading books.
I think this approach is targeting a very specific type of audience - an audience that wants to make changes, but they want the easy way. They gravitate to gimmicks and buzzwords.
Even though it may seem unnecessary on the surface, if it’s actually leading to results for people who wouldn’t have otherwise made the change (perhaps due to feeling like the thing was too big to tackle), I say why not.
And I’m probably not the target audience, either.