About This Site

It is always hard to change from the usual and it is always easy to get worse, this is what I have always felt about developing good habits. Once they are established and can be driven naturally, not much effort would be required to maintain them. Intending to improve my health, I forced a different positive behavior into my daily routine for each week, trying to train my brain to do it unconsciously. However, a week’s length of time is definitely not enough to completely form a habit, it is suggested by a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology that it requires 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit. My weekly attempts would focus on the initial stage of building a habit and finding out the possibility of future long-term development of a habit.

Each entry documents the planning, process, and result of forming a desired behavior. The habits are introduced with their connection to me and my goal(s) and approach for the week. During the weeks, statistics are collected and made into table(s) and/or graph(s) to visualize target completion. At the end of the entries a short reflection talks about some of my experiences and thoughts about the week’s habit formation.

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Habit Develop Log was designed by Jiajin Ye during the fall of 2023 for the course Core 1: Interaction at Parsons School of Design. This project aimed to visually explore a specific theme through a harmonic collection.

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. All images are taken and edited by Jiajin Ye (except the two pill bottles in entry 3), and the typeface used for this site is Optima.