
10: How to change your habits
The Psychology Podcast
How to Stop Biting Your Nails
When I was in grad school, I finally realized, you know what, this nail biting thing is not going to get me any dates. So so I decided it was time to stop. And and I discovered that I would bite my nails sitting at my desk reading. Here's the place where most people failed when they change behaviors because they start by saying I need to stop biting my nails. That's a negative goal. Why is that a problem? Because it's something you don't want to do. The habit learning system can't learn not to do something. Every time that you don't act, your habit learning system doesn't learn anything,. There's nothing to learn. What you
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