Individuals should not attempt to extinguish habits entirely, but rather replace them with new routines that satisfy the same cues and rewards.

“In fact, this is actually known in the psychology literature as the golden rule of habit change, which says you should not try and extinguish habits in your life. Because the truth of the matter is you can do it for a while, but those habits exist in your brain.”

Tony Robbins asserts that people can break patterns of behavior, such as scarcity mindsets, by experiencing significant emotional events or by shifting their perspective through new learning.

“But it takes a significant emotional event that would jolt him out of it.”