StretchLearn Course

Build Habits That Actually Stick

Use behavior science — not willpower — to design routines that last.

Beginner9 hrSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This course translates decades of behavior-science research — from BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits to James Clear's Atomic Habits model and Charles Duhigg's habit loop — into a step-by-step personal system. You will map your existing habits, design new routines backed by neuroscience, and build an environment that makes good behavior the default. By the end you will have a working habit architecture for any goal you choose to tackle.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

01

Explain the three-part habit loop (cue, routine, reward) and identify each component in your own daily patterns

02

Apply implementation intentions and if-then planning to reliably trigger new behaviors

03

Design your physical and digital environment to reduce friction for desired habits

04

Use variable reward schedules and habit stacking to sustain motivation beyond the initial honeymoon phase

05

Diagnose and disrupt existing bad habits by isolating and modifying their cue or reward

06

Build a personal habit tracker and review system that surfaces leading indicators of success

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: How Habits Work in the Brain

Understand the neuroscience of habit formation — the basal ganglia habit loop, chunking, and why willpower is the wrong lever for lasting change.

3 lessons
The Habit Loop: Cue, Routine, RewardContent · 45 min
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Chunking and Automaticity: Why Willpower Runs OutContent · 45 min
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Craving and the Role of DopamineContent · 45 min
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Module 2

Module 2: Building New Habits

Apply BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits method, implementation intentions, and habit stacking to reliably start new behaviors and anchor them to your existing routine architecture.

3 lessons
Tiny Habits: Starting Smaller Than You ThinkContent · 45 min
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Implementation Intentions and If-Then PlanningContent · 45 min
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Habit Stacking: Anchoring New Behaviors to Old OnesContent · 45 min
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Module 3

Module 3: Environment Design and Friction Engineering

Redesign your physical and digital environment to make good habits the path of least resistance and bad habits require deliberate effort to access.

3 lessons
Choice Architecture: Designing the DefaultContent · 45 min
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Digital Environment DesignContent · 45 min
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Commitment Devices and Social AccountabilityContent · 45 min
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Module 4

Module 4: Breaking Bad Habits and Sustaining Change

Diagnose and disrupt existing bad habits using loop-interruption techniques, and build a review system and identity-based mindset that sustains your habit architecture long-term.

3 lessons
Breaking Bad Habits: The Loop-Interruption FrameworkContent · 45 min
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Habit Tracking and the Measurement Feedback LoopContent · 45 min
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Identity-Based Habits and Long-Term MaintenanceContent · 45 min
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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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