How the Science of Habits Can Help Us Keep Our New Year’s Resolutions, with Wendy Wood, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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How Much of Our Behaviour Is Habitual?
Habits are a memory system that is very slow to change. After you repeat a behavior over and over in the same way, it's hard to alter our habits once we formed them. So habit memory is great because it gets us that coffee every morning in the way we like it. But it's also a challenge because it is resistant to change. And when we want to change, it's very hard.
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