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Good habits, bad habits : the science of making positive changes that stick / Wendy Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Edition: First EditionDescription: viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250159076 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.3/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BF335 .W596 2019
Contents:
Persistence and change -- The depths beneath -- Introducing your second self -- What about knowledge? -- What about self control? -- Context -- Repetition -- Reward -- Consistency is for closers -- Total control -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: 'Good Habits, Bad Habits' is a landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Persistence and change -- The depths beneath -- Introducing your second self -- What about knowledge? -- What about self control? -- Context -- Repetition -- Reward -- Consistency is for closers -- Total control -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

'Good Habits, Bad Habits' is a landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change.

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