Unit - Part I: How We Really Are Chapter - 1: Persistence and Change Chapter - 2: The Depths Beneath Chapter - 3: Introducing Your Second Self Chapter - 4: What About Knowledge? Chapter - 5: What About Self Control? Unit - Part II: The Three Bases of Habit Formation Chapter - 6: Context Chapter - 7: Repetition Chapter - 8: Reward Chapter - 9: Consistency is for Closers Chapter - 10: Total Control Unit - Part III: Special Cases, Big opportunities, and the World Around Us Chapter - 11: Jump Through Windows Chapter - 12: The Special Resilience of Habit Chapter - 13: Contexts of Addiction Chapter - 14: Happy with Habit Chapter - 15: You Are Not Alone Section - i: Epilogue Section - ii: How to Stop Looking at Your Phone So Often Section - iii: Notes Section - iii: Bibliography Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Index - v: Index
Profoundly insightful and helpful book on the power of habit and how to change your habits for a lifetime.
Wendy Wood was born in the UK and is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California. Her research incorporates neuroscience, cognition, and behavioral insights to understand habit persistence and change, and she has collaborated with many luminary psychologists, including Angela Duckworth and Adam Grant. She has written for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Time magazine, USA Today, and NPR.
If you've ever struggled to make or break a habit, this is the book
you need to read. Wendy Wood is widely recognized as the
authority on the science of habits -- Adam Grant, New York
Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and
Take, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
Wendy Wood is the world's foremost expert in the field, and this
book is essential -- Angela Duckworth, author of
Grit
Enlightening and insightful . . . Wood's research and
perspective on the malleability of habits will bring hope to any
reader looking to create long-term behavioural change * Publishers
Weekly *
Wendy Wood . . . is the most thoughtful, innovative person who
understands the role of habits in human behaviour . . . I can't
imagine a better person writing this book -- Dan Ariely
There is no one in all of psychology who could write a more
compelling book on habits and behaviours -- James W.
Pennebaker
No one has studied how habits form and direct behaviour better than
Professor Wendy Wood . . . She has described how to change
negative habits into positive versions better than anybody.
She's the researcher best able to write the next big book on the
topic -- Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and
Pre-Suasion
Fascinating and fun, this book will change a lot of lives .
. . Wood brings state-of-the-art social science into contact with
the most pressing issues in daily life. She's a tremendous guide --
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard
University, and author of How Change Happens
A fascinating tour of the science of habits, and Wendy Wood
is the consummate tour guide. One of the world's leading habit
researchers -- Professor Adam Alter, New York Times
bestselling author of Drunk Tank Pink and
Irresistible
A huge achievement. Wendy Wood manages to distil the science
of habit formation, most of which emerges from her own lab, in a
manner that is fascinating but also, above all, extremely useful
for people looking to make positive change in their life -- David
Kessler, New York Times bestselling author of The End of
Overeating and Capture
Many authors have written about habits . . . but Wood is also a
premier scientist in psychology, working on how habits affect and
are affected by the human mind. Top tip: Willpower isn't enough.
But through her original research, Wood explains what does
work * Washington Post *
In Good Habits, Bad Habits . . . the social psychologist
Wendy Wood refutes both [William] James's determinism and glib
exhortations to be proactive, and seeks to give the general reader
more realistic ideas for how to break habits. Drawing on her work
in the field, she sees the task of sustaining positive behaviors
and quelling negative ones as involving an interplay of decisions
and unconscious factors . . . Even people who score high on
self-control questionnaires may owe their apparent virtue to
situational factors rather than to sheer fortitude . . . This
observation leads to the crux of her book's thesis: the path to
breaking bad habits lies not in resolve but in restructuring our
environment in ways that sustain good behaviors. * The New Yorker *
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