**Cue → [Craving →] Response → Reward** # More ## Source - [[Atomic Habits]] - [[The Power of Habit]] Per [[The Power of Habit ]] - the Habit Loop consists of three parts. Cue → Response→ reward. [[Atomic Habits]] expands on this framework, interjecting “Craving” between cue and response. Otherwise the definitions of each part of the loop remain the same. # Definitions 1. Cue - What triggers the behavior. Can be external or internal. 2. Craving - the anticipation of the behavior that takes place between the cue and the behavior itself 3. Response - The behavior itself. What we are thinking of when we think “habit”. 4. Reward - Whatever the result of the habit is. Serves to lessen discomfort. ## Related - [[All Motivation is the Desire to Escape Discomfort]] - [[Habits Have Compounding Returns]] - [[Habit Loop & Change]] - [[Four Laws of Behavior Change]] - [[Addiction]]