Principlev1PR-1468
Use environmental initiation ease as the primary lever…
Use environmental initiation ease as the primary lever for habit installation, since dopamine prediction signals activate at cue recognition rather than reward delivery, making the first step neurologically privileged.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from the dopamine prediction error mechanism (Dopamine neurons encode prediction error rather…, Dopamine neurons fire when a reward is anticipated based…) to prescribe where to focus design effort. It's not an axiom itself—it's a design implication that follows from knowing when dopamine fires. It's actionable (focus on making initiation easy), general (applies to all habits), and grounded in the neuroscience of reward prediction.