Do you think if this a difference between the nature of genders or a difference emerging due to how parents and/or society treats boys and girls differently?
Having worked in software industry for too long, I've come to conclude that the majority of the workforce today is spent on experimentation (i.e. "let's try project X" in corporate and "a new startup to try X"). There is so much money available in the hands of the rich (angel investment, venture capital) to fund these experiments.
We broke a monolith to mini-services 3 years ago. We went from 3 deployments (dev, stg, prod) to over 200. I think we've gone a bit too far and will cut down a bit but could not be happier overall. The move allowed the business to massively scale.
If you produce only 50 of every product, they will always be low on stock and consumers will always be about to lose the opportunity. This is typical behaviour and retailers are increasingly designing business models around the idea. I am not sure if the German law has anything against producing a large variety of products in small quantities.
I was the same and now, after reading a lot about these things, I believe I am able to actually develop habits I want. What worked for me:
- I stopped trying to develop all the habits at once and sticked to a single habit. Preferably the easiest one.
- I discovered I get used to doing something by repeating it a lot. For e.g. at the beginning, I was targeting doing yoga once a week because I was thinking that the more often I target, the more difficult it would be and I would fail. It did not work out because doing something once a week did not turn into a habit. Instead, I switched to doing 3 minutes of yoga, but every single day. And I did not target increasing it at all. After a period, I was automatically increasing it without noticing it.
- I cannot develop habits when my life is busy and unstable. For e.g. if I am not coming home at the same hour everyday, and targeting to read at the same time but missing it because I was not at home at that hour, it did not turn in to a habit. When I could do it at the same time everyday for a period, then it started to stick.
- I started giving a habit at least 3 months to develop. I reserve the next three months for a single habit, if I can do it, say 60 times in 90 days, I tend to stick to it after that period and am now able to add a new one, because the feeling of "I am now trying to develop a habit" disappears for the old one.
- Also I discovered that once I make something a habit, I can decrease the frequency and still able to stick with it. E.g. I developed a habit of running 3-4 times a week, now I want to do it once a week and I can easily stick to it.
I wish a week were consisted of a number of days divisible by more numbers instead of a prime number (7). If a week was 12 days, we could do a routine every 2, 3, 4 or 6 days and it would still be the same day every week. E.g. If I wanted to run once three days, I could do that on every 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th days and it would fit the week perfectly or if we want to do a regular business meeting twice a week, we could do that on 1st and 7th days and the number of days in between would always be the same. Our schedules would be so much more neat, which could potentially yield to much more order and productivity.