Summary
Wendy Wood: Good Habits, Bad Habits - The Invisible Power of Habits
Why do we look at our phones so often and how can we stop this habit? How can we change unwanted and create good habits? Wendy Wood, a professor of psychology and business, has dedicated almost thirty years of her professional work to the science of habits, and numerous scientific knowledge about recognizing habits in all their various forms can be found in this book.
Because understanding habits will normalize attempts to solve one of our key problems: permanent behavior change. For a long time, there was a successful myth that to change one's behavior one needs only a little more strong intentions and will. The author critically examines this myth, asking why it is so easy for us to decide to change at the beginning, even to start doing some right things - and yet it is difficult to persist in a long-term and successful change of behavior and why decision and will are not sufficient tools for permanent sacrifice in order to reach the goal?
What are habits? What do we know about habits and their formation? What is the difference between habits and rituals? What is an attention deficit disorder and how do you measure your attention deficit disorder scale? Why do habits make difficult things seem easy and safe to us? How long does it take to form a habit, and how long to break it? Are habits safe havens in stressful times and why? How do you create good habits that effectively work with you, not against you?
A BOOK ABOUT SOMETHING WE ALL DO EVERY DAY... AND A LOT.
WHY DO WE KEEP DOING WHAT WE DO?
Living with your being of habits will allow you to see how much of your being functions in ways that are not governed by your desires and superficial impulses. There are depths within you.
You can harness those depths to work for you.
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