03037cam a2200325 i 4500 394091163 TxAuBib 20191018120000.0 190114s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018060812 9781250159076 28.00 1250159075 28.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Wood, Wendy, 1954 June 17- Good habits, bad habits [BOOK] : the science of making positive changes that stick / Wendy Wood. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-286) and index. How we really are -- Persistence and change -- The depths beneath -- Introducing your second self -- What about knowledge? -- What about self control? -- The three bases of habit formation -- Context -- Repetition -- Reward -- Consistency is for closers -- Total control -- Special cases, big opportunities, and the world around us -- Jump through windows -- The special resilience of habit -- Contexts of addiction -- Happy with habit -- You are not alone -- Epilogue -- How to stop looking at your phone so often. We spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions aren't conscious choices but the result of our non-conscious mind nudging our body to act along learned behaviors. How we respond to the people around us; the way we conduct ourselves in a meeting; what we buy; when and how we exercise, eat, and drink-a truly remarkable number of things we do every day, regardless of their complexity, operate outside of our awareness. We do them automatically. We do them by habit. And yet, whenever we want to change something about ourselves, we rely on willpower. We keep turning to our conscious selves, hoping that our determination and intention will be enough to effect positive change. And that is why almost all of us fail. But what if you could harness the extraordinary power of your unconscious mind, which already determines so much of what you do, to truly reach your goals? Wendy Wood draws on three decades of original research to explain the fascinating science of how we form habits, and offers the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek. A potent mix of neuroscience, case studies, and experiments conducted in her lab, Good Habits, Bad Habits is a comprehensive, accessible, and above all deeply practical book that will change the way you think about almost every aspect of your life. Provided by publisher. 20191018. Subconsciousness. Habit. Change (Psychology.) Self-actualization (Psychology.)