University College London, 2010
The habit that survived a missed day
Researchers tracked 96 people as they built a new daily habit, checking in on their progress for up to 84 days. The wall-shaking finding: missing one day did not materially affect the habit-formation process. People who occasionally skipped a day ended up just as automatic in their habit as people who never missed one.
“Missing one opportunity to perform the behaviour did not materially affect the habit formation process.”
How it shaped Never Zero: This is the entire reason Never Zero has a floor instead of a streak. If science says one missed day doesn't break your habit, an app that treats it like the end of the world is the thing that's wrong — not you.



