Making Habits, Breaking Habits, Jeremy Dean
Making Habits, Breaking Habits, Jeremy Dean
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Making Habits, Breaking Habits
Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick

Author: Jeremy Dean

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/25/2012


Synopsis

Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically?

The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a leading psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and underappreciated processes in the brain. Although people like to think that they are in control, the vast majority of human behavior occurs without any decision-making or conscious thought.

Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies, psychologist Jeremy Dean busts the myths to finally explain why seemingly easy habits, like eating an apple a day, can be surprisingly difficult to form, and how to take charge of your brain’s natural “autopilot” to make any change stick.

Witty and intriguing, Making Habits, Breaking Habits shows how behavior occurs more than just a product of what you think. It is possible to bend your habits to your will—and be happier, more creative, and more productive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

Jeremy Dean é inglês, formou-se direito, mas a sua paixão foi sempre a psicologia, o funcionamento da mente humana, terminou o terceiro doutoramento em Psicologia na University College London. Fundou um blog o PsyBlog que lhe valeu o prémio MERLOT Award por excelência como plataforma pedagógica. Porq......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Every once in a while you come across a book that changes your life. This is one of those books. It calmly and clearly lays out what research says about habits and then systematically explains how to incorporate this research into improving your life. I found several gems that I immediately incorpora......more

Goodreads review by Troy

This was an interesting book. Written by a psychologist, it looks at how people form and reshape habits, without the rose-colored glasses of a self-help book. By not sugar coating the truth about how the human mind actually works while carrying out habitual activities, and how difficult it is to cre......more

Goodreads review by Mani

In a word- Yes! This book has all of the latest research and delivers it in a useful way. I think it's a good follower for Willpower Instinct and Now Habit. It makes MasterMind:How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes look really bad. It's less technical than Duhigg's Power of Habit and way less annoying t......more