Compliance/Habit

The study and understanding of habits has been in the current media lately with books such as Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits being well-known in that arena. 

Habits can be good or bad, and we can want to form a habit, or break a habit.  All very valid.

I’ve become interested in the difference between doing something because it’s a habit, or doing it because we must, in order to comply with something – a rule, a law, an expectation.  And when a habit is done for compliance, it might be different than if it is done because we want to.