Good habits, bad habits the science of making positive changes that stick
We spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions aren't conscious choices but the result of our non-conscious mind nudging our body to act along learned behaviors. How we respond to the people around us; the way we co...
| Main Author: | Wood, Wendy, 1954 June 17- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- How we really are
- Persistence and change
- The depths beneath
- Introducing your second self
- What about knowledge?
- What about self control?
- The three bases of habit formation
- Context
- Repetition
- Reward
- Consistency is for closers
- Total control
- Special cases, big opportunities, and the world around us
- Jump through windows
- The special resilience of habit
- Contexts of addiction
- Happy with habit
- You are not alone
- Epilogue
- How to stop looking at your phone so often
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.