Habit as an Object of Spiritual and Intellectual Upbringing and Teaching

Abstract

  Based on the analysis of the phenomenon of habits and the known experience of working with it, the author proposes a methodology for getting rid of bad habits and forming useful ones for further implementation of this methodology in the secondary education system. A set of habits, in fact, constitute the peculiarities of a person's character, they are ways of interacting with others and methods of solving many life and professional problems. Peculiarities of perception and ways of thinking are also habits to a large extent. All of them emerged in the course of development as a kind of tool with which people try to adapt to the world around them and are stored in the subconscious as approved decisions (to do exactly that), i.e. they are established automatic behavioral programs in certain conditions. The ability to form your own habits is a chance to acquire the most useful and effective tools for successfully solving a wide variety of life and professional tasks, replacing outdated and ineffective ones. It is an opportunity to make your life more meaningful, productive and happy by improving yourself. The study has identified a number of features of the phenomenon that should be taken into account when working with habits, and provided recommendations for developing an understanding of the nature of habits, principles and sequence of working with them. Given the complexity of the process of working with habits, multiplied by the individual characteristics of each person, it is difficult to offer a detailed algorithm of actions, so a logical generalized scheme of work on habits is proposed, which can be individually filled with the implementation of these principles and techniques and become a personal algorithm. Recommendations are offered on the use of the main tool for working with habits - a tracker. The purposeful formation of habits makes it possible to solve three important life tasks; 1) good habits make a person better, i.e. they are part of development, self-improvement, they make a person healthier, stronger, more active, more efficient, while bad habits steal energy and time; 2) a good habit brings joy without negative consequences, and a person does not need to force himself or herself to do it, as it is done by automatic programs; 3) by honing the skills of combating bad habits, a person increases the ability to self-control, his or her will, discipline, organization and awareness, and they are very important in life in general, in life-creation.