The weird thing about daily streak habits (I dunno what they're actually called)

But you know, those habits where you try to beat your record?
Like XYZ days without drinking,
Or XYZ days of meditating everyday, or working out everyday etc....

It's like, the longer you do it, the more momentum you get because you're afraid of starting over,

But if you break your streak, especially after a long long time of keeping it, and especially if you enjoyed the moment you broke that streak,

The harder it is to start again because you know that starting again will deprive you of it for such a long time,
So you keep putting it off till tomorrow because you want just one last time.

How do you escape this trap?

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HootyTheNightOwl

Lol... I quit Duolingo for that and how restrictive it is.

I mean, my Dutch is now at the point where I can learn from other medias, too... so assembling nonsensical sentences from random words is a waste of time for me when I can watch and read actual sentences and really listen to how words are pronounced with actual human voices.

I would like a way to be able to keep my streak by telling it that I spent an hour or two studying my languages in other ways - say a private tutor, another language app or even in conversation with other native speakers of the language, for example.

Why do you need to switch to a different language or start again just to keep a streak going when there are so many ways in which you can learn a new language in a realistic way???

NerdyPotato · M

By using that streak as progress to be proud of and not setting breaking your record as a goal? I don't know how to do that though.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

I only have Duolingo streak and tomorrow it's 1 year! 😆 Last time I lost it somewhere at 340. I'm only consistent with it because it's an app.

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