Making Habits, Breaking Habits
How to Make Changes that Stick
Not all habits are bad. Most of us would love to adopt 'positive' habits – evening runs, eating more veg, clearing out the email backlog – but can't quite muster the self-control to make our resolutions stick. Now, psychologist Jeremy Dean shares the new brain science of routine that can improve any person's life, every day.
Habits are powerful, Dean explains, because of the way in which the brain runs automatically. Amazingly, we spend a third of our waking hours falling into habits without realizing it – ruminating over past events, or clicking through web sites trawling for updates. Such unconscious actions and thoughts can, however, be steered to our benefit. Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies, Dean reveals how to take control of your brain's 'auto-pilot' to transform willpower into reality.
"Have you ever tried to change a habit and failed? You should read this book... highly readable."
BBC Focus
Table of Contents:
Part One: Anatomy of a Habit
1. Birth of a habit
2. Habit versus intention: an unfair fight
3. Your secret autopilot
4. Don’t think, just do
Part Two: Everyday Habits
5. The daily grind
6. Stuck in a depressing loop
7. When bad habits kill
8. Online all the time
Part Three: Habit Change
9. Making habits
10. Breaking habits
11. Healthy habits
12. Creative habits
13. Happy habits
"Witty and informative. This is the book if you want to learn how to make your resolutions stick."
Manchester Evening News
