Habits: How Behavior Runs on Autopilot
Core idea: most of what we do each day is habit, so changing your life is mostly about changing your habits, one at a time.
The Lesson
Much of daily behavior runs on autopilot: what you grab first in the morning, where your hand goes when you're bored, what you do after a long shift. Researchers estimate that a large share of our daily actions are habits, done with little conscious thought.
A habit usually has three parts, a loop described by many researchers and popularized by writer Charles Duhigg:
Applied Wisdom
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