The goal of habit formation is to achieve automaticity where behaviors are performed without conscious effort.

“By being able to do the same thing that we want to do regardless of time of day or circumstances that's how we know that we've achieved a real habit formation, that's how we know that the habit has been moved into certain components of our neural circuity that just allow us to do it what seems like reflexively.”

“The goal of any habit that we want to form is to get into what's called automaticity. Automaticity is fancy language for the neural circuits can perform it automatically and that's the ultimate place to be.”

“So context dependence is if you go from one environment to the next, do you tend to do the same thing in the same way at the same time of day? So for instance, brushing your teeth first thing in the morning. Maybe some of you do that before breakfast. Maybe some of you do that later. Maybe some of you like me don't even eat breakfast. But when I travel, I tend to brush my teeth at more or less the same time of day relative to when I wake up as I do when I'm at home. So it's context independent. So it's a very strong habit, right?”