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A Creature of Habit

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Power of Habit

In much of our lives, our actions are actually not being driven by conscious and deliberate intention. We have this general sense that we're doing things, but it's not driven by an active decision making process. About forty three per cent of everyday action s are done repeatedly, almost every day in the same context. So one implication of this is that, just as you can have good habits that cause you to do things unthinkingly, you can also develop bad habits that causeyou to do things unthinking....

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