How to Get Habits to Stick

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The brain has brought together several different things that ultimately result in the fact that habits are aly sticky. As much as we might think that that old habit is gone, it's always lurking there in the background. If we get stressed out, or if the contex changes, it's likely to come back. And so all those things come together to make it both hard to get rid of a habit, and also really hard to prevent it from being turned on.

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

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