Good habits and bad habits

The world's leading expert on habits - Matthew Syed, The Sunday Times

Wendy Wood is the world's leading expert in this field, and this book is essential.

What if you could harness the tremendous power of your subconscious mind, which already determines much of what you do, to achieve your goals?

It's shocking that we spend nearly half our day repeating things we've done in the past without thinking about them. How we interact with the people around us; the way we conduct ourselves in meetings; what we buy; when and how we exercise, eat, and drink—a truly staggering number of the things we do every day, we do out of habit.

Yet, whenever we want to change something about ourselves, we rely on willpower alone. We hope that our determination and intention will be enough to bring about positive change. This is why we almost all fail. Professor Wendy Wood is the world's leading expert on habits. Drawing on three decades of original research, she explains the amazing science of how habits form and offers us the key to freeing our minds of habits to achieve the changes we seek. Combining a powerful mix of neuroscience, case studies, and experiments conducted in her lab, "Good Habits, Bad Habits" is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and highly practical book that will change the way you think about virtually every aspect of your life.