INCEPTION OF HABIT: Turning Addiction into Intention
Title Page

INCEPTION OF HABIT
Turning Addiction into Intention

By Hairprofessor Young
Founder of Hair Psychology™ & The Four Levels of Success

Introduction

Every addiction begins as a like. Every destiny begins as a habit.

This book is not about breaking habits — it's about understanding how they are born. You start by liking something. You enjoy it, you repeat it, and one day, it becomes part of who you are. Whether that becomes your prison or your power depends on your awareness.

Inception of Habit teaches you how to turn that unconscious loop into conscious creation — how to transform "addiction" into "intention."

You'll learn how every repeated action rewires your brain, reshapes your DNA, and refines your destiny. From the first spark of liking to the spiritual mastery of self-awareness, each chapter guides you through the human evolution of habit.

Whether you're a barber, a professional, or an artist, your environment, your love, your work, and your will all follow the same structure: from survival to mastery.

This is not just a book about habits — it's a manual for transformation.
Read it slowly. Reflect deeply. Live it daily.

Because once you learn to control the pattern, you no longer live by habit — you live by design.

Table of Contents with Descriptions

Chapter 1 — The Spark: From Liking to Habit Seed
Every habit begins as curiosity — a single spark of attraction. This chapter explores how "liking" something once can quietly evolve into subconscious repetition. You'll discover how to recognize the first signs of a growing habit before it takes control.

Chapter 2 — Building the Environment of Liking
Your environment shapes what you repeat. From sound to scent, from people to places, this chapter teaches how to design surroundings that support growth instead of sabotage. You'll learn to become the architect of your own motivation.

Chapter 3 — The Circle of Love
Love transforms repetition into devotion. This chapter explores how to fall in love with your craft, your process, and your discipline — and how to avoid being consumed by the very thing you adore. Love becomes the link between learning and mastery.

Chapter 4 — When Love Becomes Addiction
The turning point. Passion without balance turns into dependency. Through stories of salon masters and world champions, you'll see how awareness separates mastery from obsession — and how to restore balance when devotion becomes damage.

Chapter 5 — The Autopilot Habit
When repetition becomes reflex, life runs on autopilot. Here we explore how mastery can become mindlessness — and how to awaken awareness inside routine. You'll learn why real experience beats academic theory, and how to keep your hands human in a mechanical world.

Chapter 6 — Parents Awoken to Awareness
You cannot control your children's destiny, only your own awareness. This chapter helps parents see rebellion not as defiance, but as evolution. You'll learn how to guide without commanding, influence without forcing, and love without ownership.

Chapter 7 — Reprogramming the DNA of Destiny
Habits reshape biology. Using real science and real stories, this chapter shows how willpower can literally reprogram your DNA. Every repetition writes instructions for your next generation — proving that discipline is the highest form of inheritance.

Chapter 8 — The Two Roads to Genius: Book Smart vs. Street Smart
Intelligence comes in two languages — academic and instinctive. This chapter helps readers identify which kind of learner they are and how to merge both for lifelong success. The secret? Grow one side to mastery, and the other will follow naturally.

Chapter 9 — From Survival to Spirit: The Four Civilizations of Hair and Humanity
Hair Psychology meets Human Civilization. Discover how humanity's growth mirrors a hairstylist's evolution — from surviving for food to creating for meaning. You'll see how civilizations rise through awareness, from fossil fuel to spiritual energy.

Chapter 10 — The Endless Classroom: Learning in the Age of AI
In the future, AI may take your job — but never your communication, your empathy, or your learning spirit. This chapter reveals the one human skill machines can't replace: the ability to connect. The habit of learning becomes the key to immortality.
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INCEPTION OF HABIT: Turning Addiction into Intention
Title Page

INCEPTION OF HABIT
Turning Addiction into Intention

By Hairprofessor Young
Founder of Hair Psychology™ & The Four Levels of Success

Introduction

Every addiction begins as a like. Every destiny begins as a habit.

This book is not about breaking habits — it's about understanding how they are born. You start by liking something. You enjoy it, you repeat it, and one day, it becomes part of who you are. Whether that becomes your prison or your power depends on your awareness.

Inception of Habit teaches you how to turn that unconscious loop into conscious creation — how to transform "addiction" into "intention."

You'll learn how every repeated action rewires your brain, reshapes your DNA, and refines your destiny. From the first spark of liking to the spiritual mastery of self-awareness, each chapter guides you through the human evolution of habit.

Whether you're a barber, a professional, or an artist, your environment, your love, your work, and your will all follow the same structure: from survival to mastery.

This is not just a book about habits — it's a manual for transformation.
Read it slowly. Reflect deeply. Live it daily.

Because once you learn to control the pattern, you no longer live by habit — you live by design.

Table of Contents with Descriptions

Chapter 1 — The Spark: From Liking to Habit Seed
Every habit begins as curiosity — a single spark of attraction. This chapter explores how "liking" something once can quietly evolve into subconscious repetition. You'll discover how to recognize the first signs of a growing habit before it takes control.

Chapter 2 — Building the Environment of Liking
Your environment shapes what you repeat. From sound to scent, from people to places, this chapter teaches how to design surroundings that support growth instead of sabotage. You'll learn to become the architect of your own motivation.

Chapter 3 — The Circle of Love
Love transforms repetition into devotion. This chapter explores how to fall in love with your craft, your process, and your discipline — and how to avoid being consumed by the very thing you adore. Love becomes the link between learning and mastery.

Chapter 4 — When Love Becomes Addiction
The turning point. Passion without balance turns into dependency. Through stories of salon masters and world champions, you'll see how awareness separates mastery from obsession — and how to restore balance when devotion becomes damage.

Chapter 5 — The Autopilot Habit
When repetition becomes reflex, life runs on autopilot. Here we explore how mastery can become mindlessness — and how to awaken awareness inside routine. You'll learn why real experience beats academic theory, and how to keep your hands human in a mechanical world.

Chapter 6 — Parents Awoken to Awareness
You cannot control your children's destiny, only your own awareness. This chapter helps parents see rebellion not as defiance, but as evolution. You'll learn how to guide without commanding, influence without forcing, and love without ownership.

Chapter 7 — Reprogramming the DNA of Destiny
Habits reshape biology. Using real science and real stories, this chapter shows how willpower can literally reprogram your DNA. Every repetition writes instructions for your next generation — proving that discipline is the highest form of inheritance.

Chapter 8 — The Two Roads to Genius: Book Smart vs. Street Smart
Intelligence comes in two languages — academic and instinctive. This chapter helps readers identify which kind of learner they are and how to merge both for lifelong success. The secret? Grow one side to mastery, and the other will follow naturally.

Chapter 9 — From Survival to Spirit: The Four Civilizations of Hair and Humanity
Hair Psychology meets Human Civilization. Discover how humanity's growth mirrors a hairstylist's evolution — from surviving for food to creating for meaning. You'll see how civilizations rise through awareness, from fossil fuel to spiritual energy.

Chapter 10 — The Endless Classroom: Learning in the Age of AI
In the future, AI may take your job — but never your communication, your empathy, or your learning spirit. This chapter reveals the one human skill machines can't replace: the ability to connect. The habit of learning becomes the key to immortality.
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Overview

Title Page

INCEPTION OF HABIT
Turning Addiction into Intention

By Hairprofessor Young
Founder of Hair Psychology™ & The Four Levels of Success

Introduction

Every addiction begins as a like. Every destiny begins as a habit.

This book is not about breaking habits — it's about understanding how they are born. You start by liking something. You enjoy it, you repeat it, and one day, it becomes part of who you are. Whether that becomes your prison or your power depends on your awareness.

Inception of Habit teaches you how to turn that unconscious loop into conscious creation — how to transform "addiction" into "intention."

You'll learn how every repeated action rewires your brain, reshapes your DNA, and refines your destiny. From the first spark of liking to the spiritual mastery of self-awareness, each chapter guides you through the human evolution of habit.

Whether you're a barber, a professional, or an artist, your environment, your love, your work, and your will all follow the same structure: from survival to mastery.

This is not just a book about habits — it's a manual for transformation.
Read it slowly. Reflect deeply. Live it daily.

Because once you learn to control the pattern, you no longer live by habit — you live by design.

Table of Contents with Descriptions

Chapter 1 — The Spark: From Liking to Habit Seed
Every habit begins as curiosity — a single spark of attraction. This chapter explores how "liking" something once can quietly evolve into subconscious repetition. You'll discover how to recognize the first signs of a growing habit before it takes control.

Chapter 2 — Building the Environment of Liking
Your environment shapes what you repeat. From sound to scent, from people to places, this chapter teaches how to design surroundings that support growth instead of sabotage. You'll learn to become the architect of your own motivation.

Chapter 3 — The Circle of Love
Love transforms repetition into devotion. This chapter explores how to fall in love with your craft, your process, and your discipline — and how to avoid being consumed by the very thing you adore. Love becomes the link between learning and mastery.

Chapter 4 — When Love Becomes Addiction
The turning point. Passion without balance turns into dependency. Through stories of salon masters and world champions, you'll see how awareness separates mastery from obsession — and how to restore balance when devotion becomes damage.

Chapter 5 — The Autopilot Habit
When repetition becomes reflex, life runs on autopilot. Here we explore how mastery can become mindlessness — and how to awaken awareness inside routine. You'll learn why real experience beats academic theory, and how to keep your hands human in a mechanical world.

Chapter 6 — Parents Awoken to Awareness
You cannot control your children's destiny, only your own awareness. This chapter helps parents see rebellion not as defiance, but as evolution. You'll learn how to guide without commanding, influence without forcing, and love without ownership.

Chapter 7 — Reprogramming the DNA of Destiny
Habits reshape biology. Using real science and real stories, this chapter shows how willpower can literally reprogram your DNA. Every repetition writes instructions for your next generation — proving that discipline is the highest form of inheritance.

Chapter 8 — The Two Roads to Genius: Book Smart vs. Street Smart
Intelligence comes in two languages — academic and instinctive. This chapter helps readers identify which kind of learner they are and how to merge both for lifelong success. The secret? Grow one side to mastery, and the other will follow naturally.

Chapter 9 — From Survival to Spirit: The Four Civilizations of Hair and Humanity
Hair Psychology meets Human Civilization. Discover how humanity's growth mirrors a hairstylist's evolution — from surviving for food to creating for meaning. You'll see how civilizations rise through awareness, from fossil fuel to spiritual energy.

Chapter 10 — The Endless Classroom: Learning in the Age of AI
In the future, AI may take your job — but never your communication, your empathy, or your learning spirit. This chapter reveals the one human skill machines can't replace: the ability to connect. The habit of learning becomes the key to immortality.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940185191712
Publisher: Sai Kuen Li
Publication date: 10/28/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 230 KB

About the Author

About the Author

Jack Li, widely known as Hairprofessor Young, was born in Hong Kong and began his journey in the world of upscale salons at the age of 14. By 17, he immigrated to the United States with nothing but a pair of scissors and an unshakable dream.

With over 44 years of experience, Jack has owned and operated seven successful salons and has become an international educator and pioneer of Hair Psychology™ — the study of how a person’s hairstyle can shape their confidence, mindset, and destiny.

But his mission reaches far beyond the salon chair. Traveling across China, he gave more than 4,000 free haircuts to unemployed individuals to help them rebuild confidence for job interviews. His scissors didn’t just cut hair — they opened doors to new beginnings.

Today, Hairprofessor Young teaches the Four Levels of Success — from Survival to Spirit — and inspires professionals worldwide to find purpose through their craft. His philosophy blends psychology, spirituality, and creativity into one universal truth: look good first, feel good later — a haircut costs less than a shrink, and works faster.

Poetic Quote for the Whole Book

A spark becomes a flame, a flame becomes fate,
Habit the sculptor, patience the gate.
From love to addiction, from action to art,
The hands that repeat soon rewire the heart.
For every cut shapes more than hair—
It shapes the soul that’s learning to care.

Final Quote from the Entire Book to Remember

You can’t control luck, life, or love —
but you can control your habits.
And once you do, you no longer chase destiny—
you design it.
— Hairprofessor Young, Final Reflection of Inception of Habit
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