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By (author) Wood Wendy
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A profoundly insightful and helpful book on the power of habit and how to change your behaviour for a lifetime.
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‘The world”s leading expert on habits’ – Matthew Syed, bestselling author of Black Box Thinking and Rebel Ideas
What if you could harness the extraordinary power of your unconscious mind to achieve your goals?
Shockingly, we spend nearly half our day repeating things we”ve done in the past without thinking about them. How we respond to the people around us; the way we conduct ourselves in meetings; what we buy; when and how we exercise, eat and drink – a truly remarkable number of things we do every day, we do by habit.
And yet, whenever we want to change something about ourselves, we rely on willpower alone. We hope that our determination and intention will be enough to effect positive change. And that is why almost all of us fail.
Professor Wendy Wood is the world”s foremost expert on habits. Drawing on three decades of original research, she explains the fascinating science of how we form habits and provides the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek.
Combining a potent mix of neuroscience, case studies and experiments conducted in her lab, Good Habits, Bad Habits is a comprehensive, accessible and highly practical book that will change the way you think about almost every aspect of your life.
‘Wendy Wood is the world’s foremost expert in the field, and this book is essential’ – Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit
Table of contents:
Unit – Part I: How We Really Are Chapter – 1: Persistence and Change Chapter – 2: The Depths Beneath Chapter – 3: Introducing Your Second Self Chapter – 4: What About Knowledge? Chapter – 5: What About Self Control? Unit – Part II: The Three Bases of Habit Formation Chapter – 6: Context Chapter – 7: Repetition Chapter – 8: Reward Chapter – 9: Consistency is for Closers Chapter – 10: Total Control Unit – Part III: Special Cases, Big opportunities, and the World Around Us Chapter – 11: Jump Through Windows Chapter – 12: The Special Resilience of Habit Chapter – 13: Contexts of Addiction Chapter – 14: Happy with Habit Chapter – 15: You Are Not Alone Section – i: Epilogue Section – ii: How to Stop Looking at Your Phone So Often Section – iii: Notes Section – iii: Bibliography Acknowledgements – iv: Acknowledgements Index – v: Index
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If you’ve ever struggled to make or break a habit, this is the book you need to read. Wendy Wood is widely recognized as
the authority on the science of habits
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Wendy Wood is the world’s foremost expert in the field, and
this book is essential
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Enlightening and insightful . . . Wood’s research and perspective on the malleability of habits will bring hope to any reader looking to create long-term behavioural change
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Wendy Wood . . . is the most thoughtful, innovative person who understands the role of habits in human behaviour . . .
I can’t imagine a better person writing this book
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There is no one in all of psychology who could write a more
compelling book on habits and behaviours
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No one has studied how habits form and direct behaviour better than Professor Wendy Wood . . . She has described
how to change negative habits into positive versions better than anybody. She”s the researcher best able to write the next big book on the topic
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Fascinating and fun,
this book will change a lot of lives . . . Wood brings state-of-the-art social science into contact with the most pressing issues in daily life. She’s a tremendous guide
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