Reactance

When users back out of a pledge, you could offer to remind them later, giving them time to think rather than triggering reactance with a hard sell.

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Klima

You could make persistent reminders an opt-in setting, so users choose to be nagged about overdue tasks, rather than feeling reactance from unrequested nudges.

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Adulting

If you limit new users to one habit at a time, you could explain that the limit stops them failing, so it feels supportive rather than triggering reactance.

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Atoms

You could experiment with enforcing breaks between lessons, but frame them around building regular habits, so users are less likely to push back with reactance.

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Ahead

Interventions tied to rules users set themselves, e.g., opening the front camera on an app they blocked, may cause less reactance than limits you impose.

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One Sec