Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick - Softcover

Jeremy Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851689893 ISBN 13: 9781851689897

Publisher: One World (UK), 2013

Synopsis

Habits are more powerful than your will - if you know how to make them work for you Two strings are hanging from a ceiling, one at the centre of the room, one near the wall. You're asked to tie the strings together, but you can't reach both at the same time. You look around the room and see a table and a pair of pliers. How would you solve the problem? When confronted with challenges, most people let habits rule them (in this case, ignoring the pliers, the creative tool at your disposal). That is not surprising when you realise that at least a third of our waking hours are lived on auto-pilot - ruminating over past events, clicking through websites trawling for updates and the like. Such unconscious thoughts and actions are powerful. But the habits of the mind do not have to control us - we can steer them. Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies, psychologist Jeremy Dean - the mind behind the hugely popular and insightful website PsyBlog - shares how the new brain science of habit can be harnessed to your benefit, whether you're hoping to eat moreveg, take an evening run, clear out your email backlog, or be more creative when faced with challenges at work and at home.

About this title

About the Author:

Psychologist Jeremy Dean is the founder and author of the popular website PsyBlog (www.psyblog.co.uk), which is read by upwards of 1 million people monthly and has been featured on the BBC and in the Guardian, the Times, the Huffington Post, and many others. Dean is currently a researcher at University College London.

Review:

`Sensible and very readable... by far the most useful of [the] New You offerings' * The Bookseller *

About this edition

• Publisher: One World (UK)
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1851689893
• ISBN 13: 9781851689897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275