Learn two strategies for making new behaviors easier in your life.

1. Behavior
Shaping and
Sequencing:
2 personal
examples
Kelly Schmutte
Stanford University
10.2.12

2. how do we make
new behaviors
easier to do?
B = MAT
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In the Fogg Behavior Model, one way you can make behaviors
more likely to happen is by increasing a person’s ability to do
them (making them easier to do).
There are 2 basic strategies for making behaviors easier: Shaping
and Sequencing. Shaping involves a gradual progression of
behavior (slowly increasing in difficulty), whereas Sequencing
involves a specific series of small, achievable steps that cascade
to the desired outcome. Here are examples of each from my
own life.

3. Shaping Map:
Long-Distance Cycling
Bike to gym
(15 min one way/ 3.75 mi)
Davis Bike Loop
(60 min/ 12 mi)
Bike to Dixon (+ beyond)
(1.5-1.75 hrs/ 25-30 mi)
(got a new, faster bike)
Bike to Winters
(2hrs/ 35 mi)
Bike to Lake Berryessa
(3.5 hrs/ 57 mi)
Bike to Lagoon Valley
(4.5 hrs/ 72 mi)
Bike to Folsom Dam
(5.25 hrs/ 82 mi)
Bike to Vallejo Ferry station
(w/ 30 lbs gear, wind, hills)
(5hrs one way/ 70 mi)
Kelly Schmutte

4. Sequencing Map:
Learn Oil Painting
Study watercolor and
drawing in HS
*
Found a friend (Katie)
also interested in oil
The * steps
represent key
steps that
cascaded Researched classes
toward the
final behavior
like a domino
effect.
*
Signed up for a 8-week
class at the DAC
Bought oil painting
supplies (brushes, paints,
canvas, etc.)
Went to class every week
(observed, practiced)
Did the assigned project
homework (weekly)
Entered two pieces in the
CA State Fair
Kelly Schmutte