#43 Good Habits Bad Habits - Book Summary

Feb 6, 2023

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Hello Wise Wordians,

Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.

This week we are summarising ‘Good Habits Bad Habits’ by Wendy Wood which explores the mechanisms that underpin habit formation from both a psychological and neuroscientific perspective.

In this episode we cover:

The difference between our conscious selves and our habitual selves
The importance of persisting, despite our conscious intentions, to do otherwise.
The areas of the brain responsible for habit formation and development.
The four basic building blocks of habits; creating a stable context, reducing friction, making it rewarding, and repeating until it becomes automatic.
How habits perform under stress.
How to leverage variability to build new habits or modify the old ones.

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Next week we will be summarising ‘Tiny Habits’ by BJ Fogg so make sure you stay tuned for that.

We hope you enjoy it.

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Chapters:
00:00:00-Intro
00:00:16-Overview
00:02:11-Persistence and Change
00:12:44-The Depths Beneath
00:29:43-Introducing Your Second Self
00:39:17-What About Knowledge
00:46:14-What About Self-control
00:54:46-Context
00:59:09-Repetition
01:06:11-Reward
01:16:37-Consistency is for Chaos
01:20:41-Total Control
01:23:32-Jump Through Windows
01:29:11-The Special Resilience of Habits
01:32:01-Happy with Habit
01:35:52-Debrief
01:37:41-Key Ideas

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