| How to Break a Habit Are you trying to break a habit in the new year? Maybe smoking, nail biting, or your reluctance to go the gym. Luckily, says New York Times columnist Charles Duhigg, we live in a “golden age of understanding the neurology of habit formation.” Scientists now know how habits work in our brains, so it’s possible to “fiddle with the gears” of a habit. In this blog, Duhigg explains how to identify a habit, diagnose what’s driving it, and then find out how to change it. |
