Is There Anything You Can Do to Help Them?

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Almost every habit has something that can trigger it. The important thing is to try to understand what the triggers are for you. It's much easier to prevent them from ever haph to prevent you from ever being triggered to do the thing, than it is to stop yourself once they've been triggered. There are some things that we know that can strengthen one's ability to to stop.

Russ Poldrack reveals the science behind why our brains are habit-building machines and how to make the best out of it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to make good habits stick

2) How to strengthen your brain against bad habits

3) Why habits never really go away–and what you should do instead

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— ABOUT RUSS —

Russell A. Poldrack is a psychologist and neuroscientist. He is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He is also the Associate Director of Stanford Data Science, a member of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and the SDS Center for Open and Reproducible Science. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 2014, he held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, UCLA, and the University of Texas at Austin.

He is the author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts and Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick. He lives in San Francisco.

• Book: Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick

• Twitter: @russpoldrack

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

• Previous episode: 734: How to Train Your Mind to Focus and Handle Distractions Better with Dr. Amishi Jha

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