Book HackGood Habits, Bad HabitsBy Wendy Wood
In a Nutshell
Behavioral scientist Wendy Wood explains habit formation and explores how to make habitual changes that improve your life.
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When habits and goals are in line, they smoothly integrate to guide our actions. Most of the time, we aren't even aware that it's happening. We act out of habit without having to make a decision to do so.
Wendy Wood
Introduction
How do you form habits that actually stick? Contrary to popular advice, it has little to do with motivation.
In Good Habits, Bad Habits, author Wendy Wood outlines a step-by-step guide for creating new habits, and explains how to make new habits second nature so you don't even have to think about them.
Wood is a behavioral scientist and Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California, and her book includes practical tips from decades of research on habit formation.
She's also a popular public speaker and has written for The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
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