You Can Pick Up Habits Without Trying

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Benjamin Disraeli talks about how we can pick up habits without trying. He says a bad habit t does not biting your nails is not something right nt care about it. But he wants to call it a habit, just like the fact that once in ten years i popped my head when i went back and visited was no longer a habit. And maybe it's a fool's errand to try to come up with necessary in suffitient cond but i think that we should take him as talking about a much broader thing,. which is e autoautomatization of any anything learned.

Ever wonder why you’re still listening to VBW all of these years? Or why you check your phone 50 times a day? Or why you put on your pants the same way every morning? (If you still wear pants these days.) David and Tamler talk about William James’ essay on habits, why they’re so powerful, and how you can make your nervous system your ally instead of your enemy. Plus, a shocking new neuroscience study reveals that we remember and share funny stories more than boring ones.