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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Habits aren’t destiny.
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…unless you deliberately fight a habit – unless you find new routines – the pattern will unfold automatically.
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Habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the structures of our brain…
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…if we can take control of the habit loop – we can force those bad tendencies into the background…
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…once someone creates a new pattern, studies have demonstrated… [it] becomes as automatic as any other habit.
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Habits are often as much of a curse as a benefit.
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Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed.
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…[habits] shape our lives far more than we realize – they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.
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…habits emerge without our permission.
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