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formed each day weren’t actual decisions,
but habits.

Duhigg’s research not only explains why
habits work, but also how habits change.
With an understanding of what habits -
are and then how you can change them, ful craving for a reward whenever the trig-
you can truly improve your life one baby

reader with Lisa Allen, a once overweight,
chain-smoking, debt-laden woman who stone. Duhigg writes, “Habits can be ig-
with one simple change in habit snow- nored, changed, or replaced.” However,
habits are so powerful because unless
graphic designer.
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- cision-making and focuses on other tasks.
foundly? Duhigg argues that the answer is
“yes.” And, he has the research to prove it.

The Habit Loop
Changing Habits
The process of forming a habit is a three-
step loop within our brains. First, there The more we understand about habits, the
is a cue, or a trigger that signals to your easier they are to break down into their in-
dividual parts and change in order to lead

not to get rid of habits, but to create ones
there is the reward, which helps your mind that are more in line with our needs and

the future. The following is a diagram of
the habit loop: rituals, we would be consumed by the mi-
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our desired lifestyles.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change