Atomic Habits

each book you read not only teaches: This idea—that learning new ideas increases the value of your old ideas—is something I firs ...

Edward Thorndike conducted an experiment: Peter Gray, Psychology, 6th ed. (New York: Worth, 2011), 108–109. “by some simple act, ...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md. The human brain is a prediction machine: The German physician Herman ...

Other successful government programs: “Policymakers around the World Are Embracing Behavioural Science,” The Economist, May 18, ...

“Contextual Influences on Eating Behaviours: Heuristic Processing and Dietary Choices,” Obesity Reviews 13, no. 9 (2012), doi:10 ...

when you step outside your normal environment: Various research studies have found that it is easier to change your behavior whe ...

showing addicts a picture of cocaine for just thirty-three milliseconds: Fran Smith, “How Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Ad ...

Anhedonia Hypotheses of Dopamine Function,” Behavioral Neuroscience 103, no. 1 (1989), doi:10.1037//0735–7044.103.1.36. the mice ...

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/266378/FATHER-OF-3-PRODIGIES-SAYS-CHESS- GENIUS-CAN-BE-TAUGHT.html?pg=all. We imitate the ha ...

when emotions and feelings are impaired: Antoine Bechara et al., “Insensitivity to Future Consequences following Damage to Human ...

long-term potentiation: Long-term potentiation was discovered by Terje Lømo in 1966. More precisely, he discovered that when a s ...

“avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.” Shane Parrish, “Avoiding Stupidity Is Easier Than Seeking Brilliance,” F ...

This is also referred to as a “Ulysses pact”: Peter Ubel, “The Ulysses Strategy,” The New Yorker, December 11, 2014, https://www ...

he started avoiding her: Sparkly_alpaca, “What Are the Coolest Psychology Tricks That You Know or Have Used?” Reddit, November 1 ...

Preschool Delay of Gratification,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54, no. 4 (1988), doi:10.1037//0022–3514.54.4.68 ...

CHAPTER 17 “When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon”: Roger Fisher, “Preventing Nuclear War,” Bulletin of the Atomic Sc ...

reflect the underlying talents and temperaments are heritable: how proficient with language you are, how religious, how liberal ...

“Personality Neuroscience and the Biology of Traits,” Social and Personality Psychology Compass 4, no. 12 (2010), doi:10.1111/j. ...

there is usually a slight decline in performance: K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expe ...

by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.” For more, see Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning: An Intr ...