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#200 — Creatures of Habit

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How to Define a Habit

Many of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about habits per se, but we are quite obviously inheriting the consequences of our habits moment to moment. And yet it's en often as once a year, at the new year's resolution moment, that people think about actually getting behind themselves and pushing to change something they're doing or not doing. How do you think about a habit? Well, there's a couple of different ways to define it. The way that you would usually hear it defined is, you know, a behaviour that's been repeated enough times to be more or less automatic. But another way to define a habit would be a behaviour that is tied to a particular context...

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